David Cronenberg Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

• 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

  Thinking, Agony, Spiders

• 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

  Unique, Hbo, Television

• 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

  David Cronenberg

  Betrayal, Lying, Lunch

• 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

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Cronenberg Talks Intellectual Menage a Trois A Dangerous Method, Knightley’s Bondage". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.

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

  David Cronenberg

  Problem, Film, Dentist

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

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

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

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

• 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

• 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

  Fun, Problem, Film

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

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