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 ARONOFSKYThe whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don’t think is a good ride.
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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’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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I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
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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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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.
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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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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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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 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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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
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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 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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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.
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