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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

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Darren Aronofsky
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 12
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Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told. Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.
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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
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'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.
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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 hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
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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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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
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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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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.
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I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
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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 was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the beach, but the beach was not like a beach you would imagine - there was a lot of pollution. And the most magical thing to me as a kid was sea glass, so I wrote about that a lot.
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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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I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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I'm not a comic book guy at all.
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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 think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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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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