David Cronenberg Quotes

A collection of quotes by David Cronenberg.

David Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Born on March 15, 1943, in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg is known for his unique brand of body horror films that delve into themes of technology, identity, and sexuality. Some of his notable works include "Videodrome," "The Fly," and "A History of Violence." Cronenberg has garnered critical acclaim for his thought-provoking and disturbing storytelling, establishing himself as one of the most influential directors in the horror and science fiction genres. He continues to explore unconventional narratives and push cinematic boundaries, cementing his legacy as a visionary filmmaker.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever

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

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole se

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

David Cronenberg

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult

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.

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But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have

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.

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The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean

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

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expres

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

David Cronenberg

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the roa

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.

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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still last

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

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

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

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The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates th

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.

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I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. F

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse rea

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

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All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying th

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

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evi

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you someho

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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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're al

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.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are thin

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

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