“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.”

Source: Cronenberg on Cronenberg (1997), Ch. 1, P. 7

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Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor 1943

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