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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
Night
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" 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. "
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" I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. "
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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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" I'm not a comic book guy at all. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'. "
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Think
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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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Hope
Student
Getting Better
" I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation. "
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Generation
Am
" 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
Good
People
Ride
" Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. "
Darren Aronofsky
Hard
Important
Interesting
" Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. "
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Great
Books
Comic
" If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time. "
Darren Aronofsky
Admit
You
Never
" 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
Cool
Now
Much
" I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit. "
Darren Aronofsky
Pain
Think
Know
" 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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Back
Person
More
" 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
Yourself
Road
Passion
" 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
Way
Content
Done
" When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world. "
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Go
" Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. "
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Live
Live Life
Life
" I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. "
Darren Aronofsky
Narrative
Filmmaking
God
" 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
Ups And Downs
Will
Always
" 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. "
Darren Aronofsky
Sister
Two
Mother