Quotes by Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn’t go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, “Oh, wow, it’s a comic-book version of the Bible.” There’s a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn’t make it into Sunday school.

Reading

School

Sunday

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

Different

Giving

Hands

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it’s important. It’s also interesting.

Character

Important

Interesting

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.

Jobs

Moving

Way

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.

Book

Comic

Graphic Novels

Every film had its own grammar. And it’s your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Directors

Jobs

Stories

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.

Different

Film

Real

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.

Gimmicks

Sticks

Thinking

I don’t think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know what I make. It’s sort of a pot roast, all my films.

Film

Thinking

Trying

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.

Mother

Strong Women

Two

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Actors

Art

Biblical

Book

Brain

Challenges

Character

Children

Choices

Christian

Comic

Creativity

Cutting

Dark

Decision

Differences

Different

Directors

Documentaries

Done

Drama

Expertise

Fans

Film

Filmmaking

Fit

Forever

Garden

Geek

Get Better

Gimmicks

Giving

Graphic Novels

Guy

Hands

Hell

Hip Hop

Important

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Limits

Long

Lows

Matter

Mean

Men

Mother

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Quotes by Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it’s important. It’s also interesting.

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.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.

Every film had its own grammar. And it’s your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

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.

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.

I don’t think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know what I make. It’s sort of a pot roast, all my films.

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.

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