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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.

Darren Aronofsky

I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn’t matter if you’re an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Careers People Thinking
The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Language Months Way
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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Teacher Thinking Writing
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.
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Actors Thinking Years
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.
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Art Fans Thinking
There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
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Ecstasy Goodtime
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.
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Choice Jobs Thinking
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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Cameras Film Hunger
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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Choices Most Passion Regret Wrong
I think there’s something in collaboration – the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people… T
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Brain People 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.
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Gimmicks Sticks Thinking
I think it’s my nature to try and make original content, and that’s what I’ve done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
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Done Thinking Trying
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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Dad Kept Poetry Teacher Writing
My god is narrative filmmaking.
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Inspirational Motivational Narrative
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.
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Chance Life Live Long Second
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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Art Challenges Thinking

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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