David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian director, producer, filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and author. Cronenberg is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 March 1943
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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.
Yeah. I mean, technology wants to be in our bodies, because it sort of came out of our bodies. In a crude way, that's what I'm thinking.
You're really talking about the human condition because there's no country on Earth that wasn't founded on violence done to somebody.
There's a certain intimacy involved. You have to get very close to the person who's threatening you. It's the opposite of what your instinct is.
I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,
It's not as though I have a message . . . I haven't solved any problem. It's a discussion, it's a meditation on the complexity of it.
I remember somebody saying to Joel Schumacher about one of his Batman movies, 'Isn't that over the top?' ... And he said, 'Well, nobody pays to see under the top.' I wish I could just say that. But I think you learn something when you go to extremes.
I had to comes to terms with that with Martin Scorsese,
if you want the exhilaration of seeing the bad guys go down, then you have to accept the consequences.
A History of More Violence'?... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'
A History of More Violence'? ... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'
You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player.
I should add that Kerry won our election.
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.