Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.