David Cronenberg Quotes

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.

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• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

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• I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

  

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• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

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• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

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• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

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• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

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• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

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• One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

  

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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

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• Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

  

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• I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

  

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• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

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• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

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• I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

  

  James Gleick
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• There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

  

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• New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

  

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• Cara's always been a real tomboy. She was never really that into makeup. She's very quick at it.

  

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• A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

  

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• 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
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