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 communicationfearfilmmake Change image and share on social
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. David Cronenberg mainstreammoviesex Change image and share on social
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. David Cronenberg difficultoriginalwrite Change image and share on social
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
Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character. David Cronenberg castcharacterfind 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
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 aliveaspectbear share on social
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. David Cronenberg begindirectorform 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