Darren Aronofsky quotes

Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his visually striking and thought-provoking movies. His work is characterized by psychological intensity and exploration of complex human emotions. He has received critical acclaim for films such as "Requiem for a Dream," "Black Swan," and "The Wrestler." Here are 35 of his quotes:

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

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

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

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

Darren Aronofsky

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

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.

Darren Aronofsky

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

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

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

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

Darren Aronofsky

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

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

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

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

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