My god is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKYThe ’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.
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Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
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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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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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For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it’s over. The salad bar is closed.
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I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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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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God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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