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I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

Darren Aronofsky

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
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
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
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
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
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
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Book Comic Graphics Novel
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Dad Kept Poetry Teacher Writing
Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Angel Film Heart
I’ve always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There’s hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn’t hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Hip Hop Movie Music
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
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 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
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

Amount End Exhausting Trying
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 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

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