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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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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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.
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It makes a huge difference in how you feel, the way your costume holds you. When you look at yourself in the mirror, it makes you feel a certain way. Actors like to talk a lot about working from the inside out, but there's a lot to be said also about working from the outside in. It can be extremely helpful.
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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.
