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More blood! More blood!
Long live the new flesh.
I work with my dreams or nightmares.
I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
You start selling the movie before you make it.
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.
Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.
The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.
Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.
My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.
I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world.
The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.
I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.
Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.
I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.
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.
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.