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1. "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
2. "I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian." ~ David Cronenberg
3. "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
4. "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
5. "Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that." ~ David Cronenberg
6. "I see technology as being an extension of the human body." ~ David Cronenberg
7. "If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster." ~ David Cronenberg
8. "Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video." ~ David Cronenberg
9. "So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born." ~ David Cronenberg
10. "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
11. "Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream." ~ David Cronenberg
12. "But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be." ~ David Cronenberg
13. "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
14. "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." ~ David Cronenberg
15. "You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do." ~ David Cronenberg
16. "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." ~ David Cronenberg
17. "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
18. "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." ~ David Cronenberg
19. "As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily pleasant but are real - a criminal, a murderer, a sadist, a rapist; to be all of these things that many people are. You can't allow yourself to say, 'I'm a different species from those people.' Because you aren't.The criminal as monster is kind of common. That's very convenient because you can then say, 'Of course I'm not a monster, therefore I'm not a criminal therefore I have no potential in tern of criminality.' And that lets you off the hook. That gives you a nice wall between yourself and them." ~ David Cronenberg
20. "I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. 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
21. "Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)" ~ David Cronenberg
22. "Long live the New Flesh!" ~ David Cronenberg
23. "My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?" ~ David Cronenberg
24. "It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well." ~ David Cronenberg
25. "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
26. "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
27. "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
28. "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." ~ David Cronenberg
29. "Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion." ~ David Cronenberg
30. "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
31. "As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist." ~ David Cronenberg

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