Darren Aronofsky Quotes
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I just believe what I believe.
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I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
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What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
