David Cronenberg

“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”

“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.”

“I think of horror movies as comedies. The things that make us laugh and the things that make us scream are very close.”

“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us.”

“My films are an extension of my own neuroses.”

“The body is the first fact of human existence.”

“Long live the new flesh.”

“To me, the body is an absolute reality. It's the first truth.”

“Art is a way of coming to terms with the world.”

“I see film as a way of testing philosophical propositions.”

“The desire to create is a desire to live.”

“Disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other.”

“I don't think in terms of genre. I think in terms of story.”

“Violence is a tool. It's a tool of the characters, and it's a tool of the director.”

“For me, the camera is a character. It's an observer.”