183 Quotes by David Cronenberg

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.

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

The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.

The artist’s duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can’t really imagine existence before you were born.

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.

I have learned the password of two of my neighbors’ wireless home networks, so you can use theirs if you like. Be a parasite on their network. Global digital parasitism is the new Trotskyism. Connect to anywhere in the world you like.

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.

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.