On the commentary, Darren Aronofsky's introduction to Hubert Selby Jr. was "Last Exit to Brooklyn." He discovered the book in his college library, because the word "Brooklyn" attracted his eye. "When you're from Brooklyn or you see anything about Brooklyn, you're immediately fascinated," he says. The book changed his life. He kept it out for a year, reading it numerous times. Once he entered film school, Aronofsky took inspiration from Selby to make his short films. Fortune Cookie (1991), one of Aronofsky's student shorts, was based on one of Selby's short stories. When the book "Requiem for a Dream" was released in 1978, Aronofsky got a copy but could only read halfway through. The novel had several story ideas he had had, but, as he states, "they were written by a much better writer twenty years before I was even writing." It was Eric Watson, Aronofsky's producer and co-writer on Pi greco - Il teorema del delirio (1998), who convinced him that Requiem should be his next film. Selby was very open to Aronofsky adapting his novel.

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