David Cronenberg Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, Ch. 4, 1997.

• Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Past, Royalty

• You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Order

• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

• When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

  David Cronenberg

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

• The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Desire

  Interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Radio program Q, June 7, 2012.

• Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Cronenberg Talks Intellectual Menage a Trois A Dangerous Method, Knightley’s Bondage". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.

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