David Cronenberg Professions : Filmmaker Born : March 15, 1943 Browse All Authors Top 72 quotes by David Cronenberg Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. David Cronenberg technology math science 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. David Cronenberg philosophical motivational inspirational When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. David Cronenberg responsibility dream art Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. David Cronenberg difficult different writing All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. David Cronenberg stereotype youth realizing Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. David Cronenberg originals consciousness sin 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 alive forever world 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. David Cronenberg afterlife understanding thinking Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. David Cronenberg labs mad life-is I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. David Cronenberg horror art thinking For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places. David Cronenberg wall artist dark 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. David Cronenberg existential imagine understanding Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. David Cronenberg disease clever sex 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 mean art thinking The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats. David Cronenberg simple night children The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. David Cronenberg artist responsibility thinking Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. David Cronenberg cinema want culture I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find. David Cronenberg creativity brain thinking I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized. David Cronenberg opera wells structure 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 self mind reality Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors
