Quotes by Canadian authors

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"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

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

David Cronenberg, Director

"But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be"

David Cronenberg, Director

"The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder"

David Cronenberg, Director

"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"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"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I see technology as being an extension of the human body"

David Cronenberg, Director

"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do"

David Cronenberg, Director

"For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors"

David Cronenberg, Director

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes"

Alex Campbell, Politician

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