Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
Darren Aronofsky

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
Darren Aronofsky

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
Darren Aronofsky

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
Darren Aronofsky

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
Darren Aronofsky

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Darren Aronofsky

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
Darren Aronofsky

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
Darren Aronofsky

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
Darren Aronofsky

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
Darren Aronofsky

I'm not a comic book guy at all.
Darren Aronofsky

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
Darren Aronofsky

If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.
Darren Aronofsky

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
Darren Aronofsky

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
Darren Aronofsky

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
Darren Aronofsky