Time & Perspective Quote by David Cronenberg

Cronenberg isn’t romanticizing authorship; he’s demystifying it. The line lands with a craftsman’s shrug: writing isn’t the ordeal, the calendar is. Coming from a director whose films obsess over bodies, systems, and the friction between flesh and technology, that “just a question of finding the time” reads less like humility than like an admission about the real enemy of creativity in late capitalism - scheduling, financing, promotional cycles, the bureaucratic sprawl that surrounds any serious production.

Then he pivots: the “direct connection with the fans.” For a filmmaker historically associated with cool, clinical distance, the phrase “pretty neat” is almost disarming. It’s also strategic. Cronenberg came up in an era where auteurs communicated through the work and the occasional interview. The newer model asks creators to be present, available, legible - to maintain a public-facing persona alongside the art. His approval of that shift suggests an artist adjusting without pretending it’s pure virtue.

Subtext: control and intimacy. Writing (especially if he’s talking about novels, scripts, or even public-facing commentary) offers a cleaner pipeline from imagination to audience than the collaborative, compromise-heavy machinery of film. “Direct connection” is not just fandom; it’s feedback, circulation, relevance. Cronenberg frames it as casual enjoyment, but it’s also an acknowledgment that the audience relationship has become part of the medium. In the digital age, even the master of body horror appreciates a little unmediated contact.