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 ve…

- David Cronenberg

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

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

- David Cronenberg

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

- David Cronenberg

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

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

- David Cronenberg

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…

- David Cronenberg

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 bec…

- David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

- David Cronenberg