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 bearfindforever Change image and share on social
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 carpentercomparedirector share on social
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. David Cronenberg godmanmean share on social
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. David Cronenberg artartfulaspect share on social
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. David Cronenberg censorconfuseillusion Change image and share on social
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 agonydifficultdisappear share on social
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. David Cronenberg mainstreammoviesex Change image and share on social
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 chaosexperimentfend Change image and share on social
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. David Cronenberg bodyconsciousdifficult share on social
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. David Cronenberg audiencecontrolhitchcock Change image and share on social
