More - David Cronenberg Quotes

[Even though he did not originate the story, Cronenberg does feels connected to it in strange ways -- as he does to all of his film projects.] They're all highly personal, ... I didn't write the script of Spider, either. It was based on a novel (and someone else wrote the script). The Dead Zone, which I did about 20 years ago, was based on a novel and I didn't write that script either. Now, in each case, I'm very involved with the script and, in the case of this movie, I did do a rewrite myself.

David Cronenberg

 

The whole Crash thing has been very annoying. I've let Haggis know that as well. It's not a legal issue; it's an ethical issue. And also I think it's just plain stupid.

David Cronenberg

 

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

David Cronenberg

 Potential

People are saying, are you feeling the love now for `History of Violence,' and I say, `Yeah,' and that's a scary thing, because it could get addictive,

David Cronenberg

 History

So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.

David Cronenberg

 

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.

David Cronenberg

 Canadian Director

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

David Cronenberg

 Canadian Director

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

 Canadian Director Life

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

 Canadian Director Life

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

David Cronenberg

 Canadian Director Illusion