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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

Topics: Art Aspects Because Confront Confrontation Difficult Face Film Films Horror Horror Film Horror Films Just Just Because Life Make Making Mean Own Think You Your I Think

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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

Topics: Chaos Everybody Experiment Find Lab Life Live Mad Madness Off Problems Scientist Solve Trying Way

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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

Topics: Above Consolation Different Different Perspective Float Manage Only Other Perspective Philosophy See Somehow Still Things Too You

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

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Canadian Moral Plan

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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

Topics: Anything Because Body Cannot Difficult Difficult Thing Embrace Existence Fact First Human Human Body Human Existence Imagine Impossible Me Mind Mortality Non-Existence Reality Self-Conscious Thing Very You

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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.

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Anybody Bringing Cinema Culture Got History Language Literacy Literary Manipulate Movie Nor Possibly Religion Sexual Want Whatever Who Whole

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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

Topics: Anything Before Believe God Just Know Man Meant People Say Some Stupid Things Think You

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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

Topics: Alive Aspects Being Born Bothered Disturbing Fact Forever Found Going Just Like Me Observing Out Really Some Then Were World You I Was Born

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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.

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Also Art Artist Dealing Every Feels He Know Must Order Saying Significance Specific Things Think Universal Universally You I Think

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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.

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Agony Always Been Course Difficult Disappearing Distracting Film Getting Got Harder Last Making Money Movie Nobody Paid Process Spider Things Think Very I Think

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: March 15th, 1943

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