183 Quotes by David Cronenberg

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.

On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you.”“Je t’adore aussi. Call me. Bye.”“Bye.

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.

Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.

He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theater. It is a theater, after all.