Darren Aronofsky

Interview - Darren Aronofsky

STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

...on The Fountain
"The Film is more of an experience than it is a movie. [...] It's about one man's search for eternal life and to hold on to eternal love."

"When you make a movie you can make a cohesive universe, its own world."

"I always describe what I do as I'm very much a tapestry maker in the sense that I take all these ideas from different places that I think are interesting and cool and I kinda weave them together into its own new thing."

Q: Your films really evoke strong emotions for the viewer, how do you get inspired to instill this?
A: ...That's why we go to the movies, it's to feel...

"In Hollywood, anytime you try to do something different, it's very difficult. We were persistent, we stuck with it, it took a long time, and we're all proud."

Re: the aesthetics of The Fountain
"The entire film, when you watch it, you'll see it's an entire movement from darkness into light and for us that was a movement from fear into acceptance. And so everything is positioned that way, so visually it was a very very specific film and we made...every shot was just framed and lit with a lot of care."