"I think you have to find a rational place for your mind to settle and not just have a visceral reaction. You have to have the conceptual thing in between, modulating it. Dead Ringers touched on inner beauty, on how we don't have an aesthetic for the inside of the body. It's weird that we should see a beautiful woman yet be disgusted by the inside of a body that's just below the surface. Now why is that? That's quite strange to me."

(Cronenberg im Gespräch mit Chris Cunningham, via fm4)

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"In one particularly gruesome sequence, Beverly invents some new surgical instruments that look like daydreams by the Marquis de Sade and uses them in a bloody operation that looks like what you do to the turkey before the stuffing goes in.

(R. Ebert.)