David Cronenberg Quotes

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.