83 Quotes by Darren Aronofsky

I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.

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

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.

Every film had its own grammar. And it’s your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I’ve spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

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.

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

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

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.