David Cronenberg Quotes

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• All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
• You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything…
• When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you…
• My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
• I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there…
• Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
• Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
• Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to…
• The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
• I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die,…
• Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats,…
• Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather…
• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.
• Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.
• When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.
• But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very…
• As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and…
• Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be…
• It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would…
• The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious…

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