David Cronenberg quotes - page 2

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)
You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally. View quote
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If you've ever sat in a room with twins, immediately you're forced to deal with this confusion. You're afraid to call them by name because you're afraid you're going to get it wrong. At first being a twin is a source of power, you can switch, you can fool people-but then it becomes a vulnerability because people confuse you when you don't want them to. The famous story of the twins who were both spanked when either one of them did something wrong because the parents wanted to make sure they got the right twin. So that would immediately make each twin totally responsible for the other one's actions and therefore would make you want to control the other twin's actions. It gets quite twisted and the confusion of identities becomes quite intense. View quote
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Dolphins read each other's emotions by sonar and it's the inside of the body, the configuration of the viscera, that lets dolphins know whether the dolphin they are meeting is tense or happy. Their emotions are much more connected with the insides of each other's bodies. We don't have that. It's like denying 90% of what we are physically, not knowing it. View quote
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Omnisexuality is the term that I use in Hysteria. There seems to be a strain of pure sexuality that can embody itself in any possible way, female, male, something else. This is the first time I've ever articulated this, but I think I'm most interested in that essence of sexuality that seems to be able to take many forms but has still a specific feel and tone to it that we all recognize. You can't really define it as male or female. I'm very fascinated with the way in which maleness and femaleness is specifically physical. but not necessarily purely sexual. There is a difference amongst all those things. This takes you right back to the mind/body schism that I go crazy with all the time. View quote
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We are confused and bemused, and think that it's a momentary delusion that will soon dissipate, leaving our lives to continue as they were. View quote
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Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost. View quote
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I see technology as being an extension of the human body. View quote
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So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character. (David Cronenberg)
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. View quote
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Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster. View quote
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Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video. View quote
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I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian. View quote
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Everybody has antennae. Some people mute them. If you're an artist, you enhance them. (David Cronenberg)
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. View quote
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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. View quote
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. View quote
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. View quote
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