So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born. David Cronenberg beardieexistence Change image and share on social
I see technology as being an extension of the human body. David Cronenberg bodyextensionhuman Change image and share on social
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 budgetcreatedivest share on social
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 bodyconsciousdifficult share on social
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 bearfindforever Change image and share on social
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 carpentercomparedirector share on social
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 godmanmean share on social
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 artartfulaspect share on social
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things. David Cronenberg babyepochextraordinary share on social
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. David Cronenberg censorconfuseillusion Change image and share on social