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

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

I work with my dreams or night...

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

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

When I am creating art, I have...

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

The filmmaking process is a ve...

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 a study of fear or any of that stuff.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

But with my last film, Spider ...

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Sex is the invention of a very...

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

As a filmmaker, I ask question...

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

You start selling the movie be...

You start selling the movie before you make it.

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

It's impossible to make a movi...

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

The way a child discovers the ...

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

I never thought I was doing th...

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 compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

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

But when you're writing a scri...

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

The problem with doing a schlo...

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.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

We are at a major epoch in hum...

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 sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

So not only can you not imagin...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

If you put yourself in a group...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

Re-writing is different from w...

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

David Cronenberg 109 quotes

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