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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

There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Ecstasy Goodtime
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
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Taken Want World
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Anywhere Don Found God
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Drama Garden Insurance Running
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 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
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Cameras Film Hunger
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Definitely Mean Party People
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
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 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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

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

Language Months Way
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
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

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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