"David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation."

-- J. Hoberman

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“I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.”
“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”
“Customers do not want online games.”
“It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!”
“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”
“There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.”

Source : 'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6
“I always tell people that I have never ever gone dancing in my life. But that's the point. It's the point of dreaming of doing it, imagining doing it. My music is like a fantasy version of it, not a practical version of it. With the way a club DJ would make a track - they are in the club, they know how to get people excited. I don't know how to get people excited. I'm just imagining euphoria; I'm not necessarily feeling it.”

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