The Tim Ferriss Show

#263: Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky — Exploring Creativity, Ignoring Critics, and Making Art

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Sep 9, 2017
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The Puzzle Desk That Became A Musical Machine

  • Darren Aronofsky commissioned a five-year, handcrafted wooden puzzle desk that contains dozens of hidden panels and plays music using bellows and draws.
  • He also had a matching puzzle chair built and paid heavily for the custom craftsmanship.
ADVICE

Use Procrastination And Muscle Drafts Productively

  • Embrace procrastination as part of the creative process because the brain needs breaks to combine ideas unconsciously.
  • Use isolation bursts to produce a muscle draft quickly, then refine with multiple passes rather than polishing too early.
ANECDOTE

Five Days To A Fever-Dream Script

  • Aronofsky wrote the screenplay for mother! in a five-day fever-dream weekend while alone, producing a complete draft quickly.
  • He showed it to producers who were surprised but felt something powerful existed in the script.
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