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So not only can you not imagi...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

I also think the relationship...

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Of course for many years dire...

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Each kid has a different leve...

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Everybody's a mad scientist, ...

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 off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

All stereotypes turn out to b...

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 to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

The process of making a movie...

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

When we talk about violence, ...

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 is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Your'e seeing me develop, not...

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 a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

I'm simply a nonbeliever and ...

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, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

You need language for thought...

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 anticipation of death without language would be impossible.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

I'm not very well organized u...

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Art forms of the past were re...

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, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

It's impossible to make a mov...

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 be banned in every country of the world.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

All romances end in tragedy. ...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Consciousness is the original...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

The idea of a mass audience w...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

When you're in the muck, you ...

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 see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Casting is really a black art...

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 really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

For me, it's just a normal ar...

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 like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

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