David Cronenberg

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the…

— David Cronenberg

More blood! More blood!

— David Cronenberg

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

— David Cronenberg

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve…

— David Cronenberg

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on…

— David Cronenberg

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

— David Cronenberg

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have…

— David Cronenberg

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist…

— David Cronenberg

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

— David Cronenberg

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

— David Cronenberg

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

— David Cronenberg

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and…

— David Cronenberg

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

— David Cronenberg

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't…

— David Cronenberg

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because…

— David Cronenberg

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's…

— David Cronenberg

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then…

— David Cronenberg

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain…

— David Cronenberg

For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't…

— David Cronenberg

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow…

— David Cronenberg

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

— David Cronenberg

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not…

— David Cronenberg

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always…

— David Cronenberg

“Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)”

— David Cronenberg

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is…

— David Cronenberg