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

David Cronenberg

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David Cronenberg
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 15
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City of Toronto
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Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
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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.
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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.
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
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Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
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I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.
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My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
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As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
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My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
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Your'e 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.
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Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
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Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
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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.
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Long live the new flesh.
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I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
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All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
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I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.
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