When you're in the muck, you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck, but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That's the consolation of philosophy. David Cronenberg More Quotes by David Cronenberg More Quotes From 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 technologymathscience 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 philosophicalmotivationalinspirational When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. David Cronenberg responsibilitydreamart Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. David Cronenberg difficultdifferentwriting 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 stereotypeyouthrealizing Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. David Cronenberg originalsconsciousnesssin 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 aliveforeverworld 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 afterlifeunderstandingthinking Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. David Cronenberg labsmadlife-is I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. David Cronenberg horrorartthinking 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 wallartistdark 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 existentialimagineunderstanding Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. David Cronenberg diseasecleversex 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 meanartthinking 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 simplenightchildren The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. David Cronenberg artistresponsibilitythinking 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 cinemawantculture 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 creativitybrainthinking 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 operawellsstructure 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 selfmindreality
