Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences.

Aside from The Dead Zone ( 1983 ) and The Fly, Cronenberg has not generally worked within the world of big-budget, mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, although he has had occasional near misses.

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

Since 1988's Dead Ringers, Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ).

Cronenberg has also appeared as an actor in other directors ' films.

In the October 2011 edition of Rue Morgue, Cronenberg stated that he has written a companion piece to his 1986 remake of The Fly, which he would like to direct if given the chance.

Cronenberg has appeared on various " Greatest Director " lists.

Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone.

Holm has also appeared in two David Cronenberg films, Naked Lunch ( 1991 ) and eXistenZ ( 1999 ) and was Harold Pinter's favourite actor, the playwright once stating: " He puts on my shoe, and it fits!

As a result, Cronenberg has said, Scanners was a nightmare to make.

None of these projects has involved Cronenberg as director.

He also appeared in the 1981 film Scanners, a science fiction / horror film by Canadian director David Cronenberg that has since attained cult film status.

David Cronenberg was surprised when The Fly became embraced as a cultural metaphor for AIDS, since he originally intended the film to be a more general analogy for disease itself, terminal conditions like cancer and, more specifically, the aging process: " If you, or your lover, has AIDS, you watch that film and of course you'll see AIDS in it, but you don't have to have that experience to respond emotionally to the movie and I think that's really its power ; This is not to say that AIDS didn't have an incredible impact on everyone and of course after a certain point people were seeing AIDS stories everywhere so I don't take any offense that people see that in my movie.

Whereas the 1958 original was followed by two sequels, Cronenberg has said that the stories in his films have definitive beginnings and endings, and he has never considered making a sequel to one of his own films, although others have made sequels to Cronenberg films, including Scanners ( 1981 ).

In addition, McCann has worked with such legendary directors as Sidney Lumet, Ken Russell, David Green, Paul Schrader and David Cronenberg.

Campbell has also worked extensively with David Cronenberg, appearing in such films as Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone, Fast Company, and The Brood.

Cronenberg has first been mentioned in 1050 as a part of the Werden-Abbey.

The world-reconned Plier-Company Knipex has its headquarter in Cronenberg.

Of his characters ' transformations, Cronenberg said, " But because of our necessity to impose our own structure of perception on things we look on ourselves as being relatively stable.

Cronenberg said that he found the shooting of the climactic scene, in which Nola was strangled by her husband, to be " very satisfying ".

Director Cronenberg said he identified with the residents after they were infected ; and shows the swinging sterility of " normal " life mercilessly caricatured through the characterisation of the bland, rich, young professionals inhabiting the apartment block, and the hard-sell estate agent's sales pitch from Merrick ( Ronald Mlodzik ), which accompanies the opening titles.

" Not only did this high profile attack make it more difficult for Cronenberg to obtain funding for his subsequent movies, but Cronenberg later said Fulford's article also resulted in him being kicked out of his apartment in Toronto due to his landlord's inclusion of a " morality clause " in the lease.

After two short sketch films and two short art-house features ( the black and white Stereo and the colour Crimes of the Future ) Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman.

Cronenberg remains a staunchly Canadian filmmaker, with nearly all of his films ( including major studio vehicles The Dead Zone and The Fly ) having been filmed in his home province Ontario.

Most of his films have been at least partially financed by Telefilm Canada, and Cronenberg is a vocal supporter of government-backed film projects, saying " Every country needs system of government Grant ( money ) | grants in order to have a national cinema in the face of Hollywood ".

After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.

Shore continued to score numerous films from 1995 – 2001, including two David Fincher films, Seven ( 1995 ) The Game ( 1997 ) and The Truth About Cats and Dogs ( 1996 ); also, he collaborated on two films with Cronenberg along with Tom Hanks ' directorial debut, That Thing You Do !.

* David Cronenberg, director of body horror films including Shivers ( 1975 ) and Rabid ( 1977 ), as Ed's supervisor in the boardroom.

The first of his features for which Cronenberg did not originate the screenplay, Fast Company brought Cronenberg into contact with cinematographer Mark Irwin, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, and film editor Ronald Sanders, all of whom became regular crew members on his films.

Actor Nicholas Campbell, who plays William Smith's young sidekick, also went on to appear in three more Cronenberg films, The Brood, The Dead Zone and Naked Lunch.

The book was considered " unfilmable " and Cronenberg acknowledged that a straight translation into film would " cost 100 million dollars and be banned in every country in the world ".

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

This was the first Cronenberg film to be scored by Howard Shore, and is also Shore's first film score.

Cronenberg agreed to sign on as director if he would be allowed to rewrite the script.

Cronenberg further states he had not seen Chambers ' most well-known film, Behind the Green Door, prior to casting her.

Other regular collaborators include actor Robert Silverman, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, film editor Ronald Sanders, his sister, costume designer Denise Cronenberg, and, from 1979 until 1988, cinematographer Mark Irwin.

In 2009 Cronenberg received the Légion d ' honneur from the government of France.

Rather than attempting a straight adaptation, Cronenberg took a few elements from the book and combined them with elements of Burroughs ' life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than the book itself.

The most critically acclaimed filmmakers from English Canada include David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Allan King, and Michael Snow.

At the time The Brood was developed, Cronenberg fought for custody of his daughter from his first marriage.

David Cronenberg recalled how, when he was a child, he used to pick up television signals from Buffalo, New York, late at night after Canadian stations had gone off the air, and how he used to worry he might see something disturbing not meant for public consumption.

Cronenberg rewrote the characters and most of the dialogue from scratch ( as well as fusing DeWitt and Chandler -- who had romantic intentions toward Barb in the Pogue draft -- into Stathis Borans ), and carried over a few key moments and concepts.

Certain aspects of the transformation from Pogue's draft ( such as the hero's loss of body parts ) were expanded upon, and Cronenberg also layered in his trademark themes of sexuality, body horror, and personal identity.

: The " monkey-cat " of Pogue's script was repurposed by Cronenberg into a twisted, desperate attempt of Brundle's to find a cure, and Pogue's sequence of a fly leg hatching from Geoff's side was taken one step further, with Brundle amputating the twitching limb with his teeth.

Shivers ( filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites ; alternate titles: The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within, and Frissons for the French Canadian distribution ) is a 1975 Canadian body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg.

Lucas ' most recent work of nonfiction, Videodrome, a study of the 1983 David Cronenberg film, inaugurated the new Studies in the Horror Film line from Centipede Press in September 2008.