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Technology has really taken over evolution. We’ve seized control of evolution ourselves without really quite being conscious of it. It’s no longer the environment that affects change in the human body, it’s our minds, it’s our concepts, our technology that are doing that.

— David Cronenberg

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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg (1997)

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.

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

I know that many artists feel that they are frauds - that's part of the pleasure of creativity.

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.

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