“I was making the movie in a very-early-internet universe,” Aronofsky says. “Information didn’t flow as obviously. You just had to hear thingspeople. I remember when we were trying to research sacred geometry: There were only some fringe books that we had to order that took months to get to us. The Kabbalah stuff, it was before it had become part of the culture.”
Similarly, Aronofsky is aware that pi’s popularity has grown since his movie came out. “So, yeah, you always wonder,” he says. “‘Is it the film that influenced it? Or is it simultaneous with how the world is changing, and you’re sort of somehow a messenger?’” Aronofsky and his producers raised the movie’s budget a hundred US dollars at a time, effectively using the now internet-beloved technique of crowdfunding long before that was a familiar term. “It was a form letter,” Aronofsky says. “I still remember the opening: ‘Yes, this is a form letter, but it’s not because we don't love you.’” They offered a return of $150 , two tickets to the premiere, and a name in the credits—if the movie was ever made, of course.
Watching _Pi_ one evening inspired me to do the only publishable bit of math I've ever done.
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