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.
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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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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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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them.
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Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a 'guys' girl.'
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It's to easy to do something different, the challenge is to stay in your own space, and keep it good. That's the hard part.
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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.
