David Cronenberg's biography

David Paul Cronenberg is 79 years old film director born at Toronto. David was born on Monday 15th of March 1943. David is often nicknamed as David Paul Cronenberg, David Cronenberg. According to year of birth 1943 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 15th of March means he is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.

David is white canadian. David is citizen of Canada. He is atheist. David´s primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as screenwriter, actor, film producer, film editor, film actor. David is recently known as television actor.

David Cronenberg's family

He has 1 son.

David Cronenberg's son: Brandon Cronenberg

David Cronenberg's son's name is Brandon Cronenberg. He is known as film director. David´s son was born on Thursday 10th of January 1980 in Toronto.

David Cronenberg's schools

We found 3 schools David attended. Complete list of schools: University of Toronto, Harbord Collegiate Institute, North Toronto Collegiate Institute.

Detailed informations about David´s schools

He studied university - BA Literature, Toronto University.

David Cronenberg's career

David´s main focus is to be film director. David is famous thanks to Scanners, The Fly, Dead Ringers. David is also a member of Royal Society of Canada.

Is David Cronenberg gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

David Cronenberg's Awards

He received award for Jury Prize for work Crash in 1996

David Cronenberg's Nominations

Has directed 2 actors to Oscar nominations: William Hurt (Best Supporting Actor, A History of Violence (2005)) and Viggo Mortensen (Best Actor, Eastern Promises (2007)).

What else you don't know about David Cronenberg ?

David´s middle name is Paul.

David Cronenberg's quotes

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?
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.
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.
[on the exploding head in Scanners (1981)] Yeah, it is metaphorical...it isn't just a special effect in a vacuum.
When you're in the muck, you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck, but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
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.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.
The versions of The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986) that you find on video carry my name, and they are the films that I made, but I hate the way they look on tape. Too bright.
We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.
As 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.
My movies are body-conscious. The first fact of human existence is the human body. If you get away from physical reality, you're fudging, in fantasy land, not coming to grips with what violence does.
To me, the life that we live is heaven. My idea of paradise is life on Earth. But we often don't know it, and can't see it that way, until, I'm sure, we start to leave it. I guess that's the way I feel about film.
I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian.
[on being voted the People's Choice Award at the 2007 T.I.F.F.] I feel like I've just been elected prime minister of Canada!
I identify with the parasites.
When I am doing art, I have absolutely no social responsibilities whatsoever -- it's like dreaming.
[on M. Night Shyamalan] I HATE that guy! Next question.
[on awards] It can be very exhausting if you're nominated, so at a certain moment, part of you is almost praying you don't get any nominations.
[on embracing digital film recording] I have no particular affection for 'film'. It's about time film died its natural death. However, the filmmaking process is exactly the same. Why would you ever want to shoot film? Well, I don't.
[on his son Brandon Cronenberg's developing interest in film-making] I noticed he was incredibly sensitive to the music of film. He knew what scary music was. He'd run away.
I'm a totally anti-storyboard person.
[on a reluctance to revisit his earlier movies for re-editing purposes] I really think of a film as being part of an archaeological dig, you know? And you want it to be as close to what it was in its time as possible.
There's an entire generation of Americans who have been spawned in the back seat of a 1954 Ford. So it's not like I invented sex in cars.
The Brood (1979) is my version of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), but more realistic.
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner's manual.
To me, movies are sex. Movies were made for sex, there's no question about it.
I never want to scare people in the cinema. I want to send them on a philosophical journey, to show them who we are and who we are not. [translated, at NIFFF in NeuchÃ¢tel, 2018]
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David Cronenberg's height, body shape

Lets describe how David Cronenberg looks. We will focus on David´s height, body shape and hair color. He is tall as 5' 9" (175 cm). Body build is average. His hair is shade of grey.

David Cronenberg