“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”

As quoted in "interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Radio program Q," http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2012/06/07/david-cronenberg-on-cosmopolis/ (7 June 2012)

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Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor 1943

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