Darren Aronofsky Quotes
I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
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I sometimes clean my ears up to five times a day. Even having buds in the same room makes me want to have a go. When I'm in India, the cheap ones freak me out because I worry they'll drop off inside my ear. In the U.K., I like Johnson's.
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You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?
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But I would dance with my daughter if I could. And if I can dance with Shilpa Shetty, then I will do that- (On being asked in an interview whether it was suitable for a man his age to dance in a song in the film Lal Badshah with Shilpa Shetty, who was young enough to be his daughter).
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I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
