Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

I reveal myself in my movies.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.