David Cronenberg Quotes

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• 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

  Math, Science, Technology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

  David Cronenberg

  Understanding, Existential, Imagine

  "David Cronenberg on his incest-heavy Hollywood satire, Maps To The Stars". Interview with Kiva Reardon, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2015.

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• 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

  Youth, Realizing, Stereotype

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Wall, Dark, Artist

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

  David Cronenberg

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, Ch. 4, 1997.

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

  David Cronenberg

  Dying, Imagine, Born

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Afterlife, Understanding

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Vision, Kind

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• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

  David Cronenberg

  Mad, Labs, Life Is

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg and Chris Rodley, January 1, 1992.

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• I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

  David Cronenberg

  Religious, Anti Religious

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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

  David Cronenberg

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• 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

  People, Forever, Remember

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• 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

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• I work with my dreams or nightmares.

  David Cronenberg

  Dream, Nightmare

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• 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 heaven, therefore I take it seriously.

  David Cronenberg

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Clever, Disease

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• Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Thinking, Violence

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

  David Cronenberg

  Consciousness, Sin, Originals

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• I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

  David Cronenberg

  Creativity, Thinking, Brain

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 2, 2008.

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• 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

  Country, Countries Of The World, Lunch

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

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Desire

  Interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Radio program Q, June 7, 2012.

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• 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

  Forever, Alive, World

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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