All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fou...
DAVID CRONENBERG I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y...
DAVID CRONENBERG You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don...
DAVID CRONENBERG When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still se...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is in...
DAVID CRONENBERG The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice...
DAVID CRONENBERG Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
DAVID CRONENBERG Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to ...
DAVID CRONENBERG The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
DAVID CRONENBERG Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither d...
DAVID CRONENBERG I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and some...
DAVID CRONENBERG I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y...
DAVID CRONENBERG The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun ...
DAVID CRONENBERG But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it w...
DAVID CRONENBERG But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innoce...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding th...
DAVID CRONENBERG When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you stil...
DAVID CRONENBERG For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the h...
DAVID CRONENBERG Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some...
DAVID CRONENBERG The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing comme...
DAVID CRONENBERG We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. ...
DAVID CRONENBERG The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communic...
DAVID CRONENBERG The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it finan...
DAVID CRONENBERG Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a...
DAVID CRONENBERG Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could p...
DAVID CRONENBERG The graphic novel is much more violent.
DAVID CRONENBERG [Even though he did not originate the story, Cronenberg does feels connected to it in strange ways -...
DAVID CRONENBERG Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audi...
DAVID CRONENBERG All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fou...
DAVID CRONENBERG My father used to work here, back when it was The Toronto Telegram. These remind me of him.
DAVID CRONENBERG It is specifically American, ... but that's not to say it's not universal. And I'm not fudging it. I...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't think I've made a movie that isn't funny, on one level or another, despite having other thin...
DAVID CRONENBERG I remember somebody saying to Joel Schumacher about one of his Batman movies, 'Isn't that over the t...
DAVID CRONENBERG The Road to Perdition.
DAVID CRONENBERG if you want the exhilaration of seeing the bad guys go down, then you have to accept the consequence...
DAVID CRONENBERG I wasn't interested in abstracting violence,
DAVID CRONENBERG It's a funny movie, too. People may wonder what's going on when they hear that about a movie that ha...
DAVID CRONENBERG It's not as though I have a message . . . I haven't solved any problem. It's a discussion, it's a me...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't think it's a good thing, really, for a filmmaker or an artist of any kind to only want to be...
DAVID CRONENBERG So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious...
DAVID CRONENBERG It's almost Twilight Zone y. There's an appeal to that longing for an imaginary pasta yearning for a...
DAVID CRONENBERG My dentist said to me the other day, I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films...
DAVID CRONENBERG Certainly, it is more mainstream than Crash or Spider, ... so I thought maybe it was too much of a n...
DAVID CRONENBERG I've launched a lot of films here.
DAVID CRONENBERG Well, we got great reviews,
DAVID CRONENBERG The whole Crash thing has been very annoying. I've let Haggis know that as well. It's not a legal is...
DAVID CRONENBERG There's a certain intimacy involved. You have to get very close to the person who's threatening you....
DAVID CRONENBERG I had to comes to terms with that with Martin Scorsese,
DAVID CRONENBERG We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manu...
DAVID CRONENBERG I apologize to my priestess. I underestimated her. I equated her with the global media, which is whe...
DAVID CRONENBERG Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the sa...
DAVID CRONENBERG Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
DAVID CRONENBERG You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don...
DAVID CRONENBERG For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're...
DAVID CRONENBERG Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, ...
DAVID CRONENBERG Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It does...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
DAVID CRONENBERG If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disas...
DAVID CRONENBERG Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history...
DAVID CRONENBERG I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were...
DAVID CRONENBERG I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
DAVID CRONENBERG As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that...
DAVID CRONENBERG My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH