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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.

Darren Aronofsky

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 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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Inspiring Movie Sleep
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.
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Creativity Differences Jobs
Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
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Angel Film Heart
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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Anywhere Don Found God
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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Goal Moment Upsetting
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.
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Character Different Technique
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
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Taken Want World
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 people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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People Real Thinking
I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual…
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People Thinking Trying
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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Cutting Expertise Geek
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’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.
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Art Challenges Thinking
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
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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Filmmaking Narrative Theme

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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