“I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.” WorldTelevisionTrain Author:Johnny Olson
“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.” IfsStillsDifferentPhilosophyPerspectiveManageConsolationFloatsDifferent Perspective Author:David Cronenberg
“My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?” ShouldSaidEnoughProblemFilmShould IDentist Author:David Cronenberg
“I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second time, and then I'd like it to be something you can see 10 years later, and it becomes a different movie, because you're a different person. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.” WayWantShouldYearsMeanPersonsI CanDifferentStuffShotsResponseComplexesAspirationTriggersPretentiousResonance Author:David Cronenberg
“Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.” ShouldHumansHomeBodyTechnologyInevitableComing HomeExtensionsHuman BodyRoost Author:David Cronenberg
“Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.” SinConsciousnessOriginalsInevitabilityOriginal Sin Author:David Cronenberg
“Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.” ThinkingKindAudienceStringsHitchcockPuppeteer Author:David Cronenberg
“The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.” IdeasAudienceRevolutionMassInventionIndustrial Revolution Author:David Cronenberg
“I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.” Has BeensEndsDiesInterestingConsciousnessForeverAfterlifeExistentialThere Is No God Author:David Cronenberg