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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.
Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 12
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Classical scores go up and down they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.
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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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