Darren Aronofsky famous quotes

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Mind #Watches #Theater

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Regret #Passion #Choices

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Dark #Matter #Lows

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Movie #Inspiring #Sleep

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 #Thinking #Challenges

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Character #Interesting #Important

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Narrative #Filmmaking

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Kids #Generations #Tvs

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Running #Kids #Thinking

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Stars #Actors #Want

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Get Better #Students #Film

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Book #Comic #Graphic Novels

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Narrative #Theme #Filmmaking

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Cancer #Fighting #Parent

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 #Thinking #Requirements

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

#Running #Drama #Garden

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

#Thinking #People #Amusement

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Thinking #Gimmicks #Sticks

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Mother #Strong Women #Two

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Thinking #Years #Actors

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Thinking #Trying #Done

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Thinking #Understanding #Stories

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Nice #People #Challenges

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Study

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Jobs #Moving #Way

Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Heart #Angel #Film

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Thinking #People #Trying

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Live Life #Second Chance #Long

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

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Passion #Character #Thinking

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Documentaries #Fit #Natural

I'm not a comic book guy at all.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Book #Guy #Comic Book

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.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Cutting #Geek #Cutting Edge

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
-- Darren Aronofsky

#Taken #World #Want