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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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Darren Aronofsky
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: February 12
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Brooklyn
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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 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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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'm not a comic book guy at all.
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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 it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
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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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Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
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I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
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My god is narrative filmmaking.
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I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
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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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I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.
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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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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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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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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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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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