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I'm just observing the world. ...

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Do you remember when you found...

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Each kid has a different level...

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.

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Art forms of the past were rea...

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.

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The desire to be loved is real...

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

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More blood! More blood!...

More blood! More blood!

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Let's put it this way, when I ...

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

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The more unique your film is a...

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

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

You know, there's a saying in ...

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

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When we talk about violence, w...

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

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.

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To me it's very obvious there ...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

The artist's duty to himself i...

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

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It was apparent to me that rel...

It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to hea

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All romances end in tragedy. O...

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

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Long live the new flesh....

Long live the new flesh.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause...

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.' --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

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

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.

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My dentist said to me the othe...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

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