Ari Aster
ON THE RECORD · 24 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“I also cultivated different algorithms to see what somebody else might be receiving. I started different accounts and created an archive. That was very helpful in making the film, even in post, when we were deciding what tweets to show on certain phones.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster details his process of researching and archiving social media feeds for Eddington.
“I started making a collection of things from my timeline to remember when I made the film,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster explains how he researched social media content for his film Eddington.
“At the end, he gets to live in his own action movie,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster discusses the climax of Eddington and the main character's arc.
“It's been democratized in an exciting way,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster comments on how generative AI is democratizing filmmaking.
“I wish we could have shown more, but we did as much as we could without it becoming distracting or no longer supporting the story.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster reflects on balancing internet references with storytelling in his film.
“I wrote that down for later. Others were pulled from different corners of the internet.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster describes gathering real-world material for use in his movie.
“I guess this all began once we started living in the internet—when we could carry the internet on our person.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster reflects on how smartphones and constant internet access changed society.
“The film is about paranoid people,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster analyzes the paranoid nature of the characters and the finale of Eddington.
“In the beginning, when these systems were hallucinating and creating weird imagery—12 fingers, bizarre stuff—that was more interesting to me,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster reflects on early generative AI imagery and hallucinations.
“but for me, it’s the heart of the film. This is a movie about people living through Covid, navigating a crisis. Meanwhile, just outside of town, another crisis is being cooked up.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster explains why the AI plot point serves as the heart of Eddington.
“Society has been atomized and fractured over the last however many years,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster discusses the impact of modern technology on society.
“I definitely wanted the movie to start feeling like Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster explains his creative intent for the climactic sequence of Eddington.
“There are more possibilities now, but something’s also going away.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster considers the positive and negative implications of new creative technologies.
“I’m in awe of what it can do, but I’m also very disturbed by it,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster describes his mixed feelings of awe and disturbance toward AI.
“We’re living in an era of total distrust. This kind of imagery could lead to the end of video or audio evidence.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster warns about the impact of AI imagery on trust and evidence.
“I do think the technological revolution is a mostly dehumanizing one,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster shares his view on the overall effect of the technological revolution.
“and it was really agitating me.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster explains how spending time on Twitter affected him.
“It was important to get as many voices in the cacophony and represent as many corners of the internet as possible—to make a coherent story about the incoherent miasma we are living in,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster discusses his goal of capturing the cacophony of the internet in Eddington.
“obviously already too late”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster expresses his belief regarding the feasibility of stopping artificial intelligence.
“One thing was inspired by somebody I heard on the street in New York with a microphone,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster recalls sourcing material for conspiracy theories depicted in the film.
“It is mostly peripheral,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster comments on the role of an AI data center subplot in his film.
“The more polished it gets, the less exciting and more alarming it becomes.”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster notes his growing alarm as AI-generated imagery becomes more polished.
“This is a movie about people living in different realities who are unreachable to each other,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster summarizes the central theme of his movie Eddington.
“I was living on Twitter,”
Ari Aster · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-18
Ari Aster describes his experience scrolling social media during the summer of 2020.