"It's a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of all dreams and desires and the lies we use to create the illusion of happiness," commented Watson. Tracing its characters' rise and fall, the novel burrows deep into their psyches to deliver a wrenching portrait of human yearning. Producer Eric Watson became a fan of Selby's when he read Aronofsky's copy of Requiem for a Dream over a holiday vacation after pi (1998) finished shooting. I wanted to tell stories." That decision led him to the American Film Institute in Los Angeles (where his first project was an adaptation of Selby's short story "Fortune Cookie"), and ultimately, to his debut feature, pi (1998) This was a deep yet simple examination of what makes us human. From sentence one, I was done, and so were my finals. "This was before the movie, and I had no clue what I was about to open. He pulled out a worn copy of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby's 1964 classic of brutality and desperation on the Brooklyn waterfront. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the word 'Brooklyn.' Now, when you're from Brooklyn and you see anything related to Brooklyn, you're immediately interested." "I was a public school kid from Brooklyn facing my first exams freshman year of college and I was terrified," Aronofsky recalled. Darren Aronofsky traces not only his second film, Requiem for a Dream (2000), but also his very career as a filmmaker to a moment in the Harvard library when he first stumbled across the work of celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr.
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