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September 27, 2005
Cronenberg on choices: it's the middle of the winter, are you suicidal?
The Age has a histoire of David Cronenberg: "People are saying, are you feeling the love now for History of Violence, and I say, 'Yeah,' and that's a scary thing, because it could get addictive... I don't think it's a good thing, really, for a filmmaker or an artist of any kind to only want to be appreciated or loved. It's if you start chasing that, then I think you've destroyed yourself." A larger budget, he says, "also meant I was going to get paid, which I wasn't with Spider, so that was good... But that wouldn't be enough. There were a lot of projects I could have done which I would have gotten paid for, but they just didn't interest me. The rule of thumb is, OK, it's the middle of winter, you're either shooting or editing it. Are you exhilarated or are you going to be suicidal? If you're going to be suicidal, don't do it, because you're going to have to live with it at least a year and a half, probably two years, so you better love it. You just better be passionate about it."
Posted by pride at September 27, 2005 06:01 AM
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