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At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Darren Aronofsky

There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Ecstasy Goodtime
I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Inspiring Movie Sleep
I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Fall Real Summer
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Cutting Expertise Geek
Also expressionistic filmmaking – making the audience feel like they were inside the characters’ heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Character Different Technique
When people think about the ark, they’re always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Long Religious Thinking
I don’t make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that ‘Pi’ was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn’t have to do huge scale.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Gimmicks Sticks Thinking
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on ‘The Fountain’. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actors Thinking Years
For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it’s over. The salad bar is closed.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Bars Giving Long
I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actors Movie Narrative
My god is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Inspirational Motivational Narrative
I think that there’s an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There’s an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There’s an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Choice Jobs Thinking
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Teacher Thinking Writing
I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Loving Study Woman
I’ve been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you’ve got to reinvent yourself. I think it’s important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you’ve got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Challenges Thinking
It’s not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It’s a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don’t really change. You’re ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Creativity Differences Jobs
I wasn’t a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Fans Thinking
I’m Godless. And so I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is — ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Filmmaking Narrative Theme
I’ve tried to take a chance with every film I’ve done – I’ve never done it the easy way, and I think that’s because that’s what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Challenge Done Easy Front Trying
Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Angel Film Heart
CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Creating Growing Mean
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Anywhere Don Found God
I’m not sure where the artistry in film making is. It’s usually that moment when you’re on set and you’re working with the actors.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actor Artistry Moment Sure Working
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Book Comic Graphics Novel
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Chance Life Live Long Second
The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Language Months Way
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Drama Garden Insurance Running

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

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