David Cronenberg Quotes
When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.
Grant, Michael, editor. David Cronenberg: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
He did not want his executioners to dispatch the victim quickly but make him suffer,
David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infection, technology, and the intertwining of the psychological with the physical. In the first years of his career he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction films such as Shivers (1975), Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986), although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.