David Cronenberg

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done…

— David Cronenberg

When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In…

— David Cronenberg

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

— David Cronenberg

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his…

— David Cronenberg

Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

— David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

— David Cronenberg

If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight…

— David Cronenberg

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

— David Cronenberg

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that…

— David Cronenberg

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

— David Cronenberg

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

— David Cronenberg

You start selling the movie before you make it.

— David Cronenberg

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really…

— David Cronenberg

Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't…

— David Cronenberg

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature…

— David Cronenberg

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of…

— David Cronenberg

“Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?" "That's…

— David Cronenberg

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

— David Cronenberg

It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,…

— David Cronenberg

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD…

— David Cronenberg

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't…

— David Cronenberg

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult -…

— David Cronenberg

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

— David Cronenberg

“We offhandedly devised many imaginary scenarios during the course of any given day, a habit that began as acerbic banter between two…

— David Cronenberg

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

— David Cronenberg