Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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.

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

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.

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

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

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

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

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

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

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.

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.