top of page
Exlpore more Movies quotes

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
Author Name
Personal Development

"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
Author Name
Personal Development

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Darren Aronofsky

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

"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."
Life

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
Movies

"At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back."
Hunger

"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."
Technology

"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."
Age

"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'."
Work

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

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

"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."
Hope
bottom of page