Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Cronenberg was the 1st horror director to get me interested in the genre. I saw "Scanners" in a movie theater in Baltimore in the 1980s & I was hooked. He's still one of my favorite directors but I keep waiting for him to become even more transcendentally brilliant & he.. doesn't.. quite.. make it. I love the early stuff I've been able to check out: "Shivers", "Rabid", "The Brood", "Scanners", "Videodrome" - & then started to lose interest in him from around "The Dead Zone" onward. I mean, Stephen King? I know you need to make money n'at but did you have to jump on the King bandwagon? I mean in the 1980s American society cd practically be divided into: 1. people who don't read, 2. people who only read Stephen King bks, & 3. people who show more read other stuff. Anyway, Cronenberg still continues to be a great director - I DID like "Dead Ringers" & "Exiztenz" (or whatever it was called), etc.. This bk covers the period up to "Crash". show less

Have been taking more of an interest in books like these of late, especially as I would like to have another go at directing.

This collection of interviews with David Cronenberg by Chris Rodley is something of an eye opener and has been a wonder opportunity for me to revisit some of his best works. But overall I didn't find this one as moving or nearly as inspirational as Rodley's interviews with David Lynch.

Happy to have read it and there are certainly some fundamental pointers in here, but didn't fire my imagination.

Very interesting book about a very interesting man. Slows down a bit at times.