David Cronenberg Quotes

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• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its…
• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.…
• I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes…
• I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be -…
• But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself…
• The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
• We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without…
• So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
• If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.
• Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
• Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different…
• When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking…
• You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the…
• To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
• The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend…
• All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin…
• For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality,…
• I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

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