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 ARONOFSKYI end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it’s exhausting.
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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.
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I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
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The ’90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the ’90s than they were in the ’80s. The ’90s was Ecstasy, the ’80s was yuppies.
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That’s the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It’s upsetting because you get away from the core.
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I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it’s exhausting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
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God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
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There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.
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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.
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