Quotes by David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

Keys

People

Writing

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.

Realizing

Stereotype

Youth

At a certain point the audience shouldn’t worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that’s pretty much impossible.

Twists

Understanding

Worry

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.

Agony

Spiders

Thinking

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.

Art

Book

Thinking

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

Consciousness

Originals

Sin

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.

Forever

People

Remember

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.

Kind

Strings

Thinking

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

Labs

Life Is

Mad

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.

Math

Science

Technology

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Agony

Alive

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Artist

Baby

Believe

Blood

Book

Born

Brain

Children

Clever

Communication

Consciousness

Creative

Creativity

Cultural Differences

Dark

Dentist

Desire

Differences

Different

Directors

Disaster

Disease

Dream

Dvds

Dying

Effort

Existential

Film

Finishing

Forever

Fun

Games

Groups

Guy

Horror

Hurt

Imagine

Keys

Kind

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Life Is

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Math

Mean

Men

Mind

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Quotes by David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

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.

At a certain point the audience shouldn’t worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that’s pretty much impossible.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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