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Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

~David Cronenberg

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

~David Cronenberg

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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

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I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

~David Cronenberg

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I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

~David Cronenberg

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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.

~David Cronenberg

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: March 15th, 1943

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