Darren Aronofsky Quotes

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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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
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• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
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  • Trying

• I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Black

• We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

  

  Bjork
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• The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?

  

  Alison Owen
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• What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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  • Attention
  • Voice

• 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
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Art