Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I make movies I want to see.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

I had always wanted to don the director's hat and was waiting for the right time.

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

My films, no one else will do.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.