David Cronenberg Quotes

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

David Cronenberg
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
The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

David Cronenberg
We are confused and bemused, and think that it's a momentary delusion that will soon dissipate, leaving our lives to continue as they were.

David Cronenberg
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
Canadians are very reluctant to confront the creature from the Black Lagoon—which is our collective unconscious, really. But that creature wants to come out.

David Cronenberg
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

David Cronenberg