Darren Aronofsky Quotes
Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.
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My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
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The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
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Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
