"[E]ach movie generates its own little biosphere, and has its own little ecology, and its climate, and you're attuned to that more than anything else. So when people say, 'Is there anything you wouldn't show on film?' or, 'Do you ever draw back?' I'm saying if I do, it's only because of that biosphere: What is appropriate? What works within the ecology of that movie? So in one movie sex and blood would be very up-front, like Crash (1996), because it's sort of the subject of the movie, and in another movie, like The Dead Zone (1983), it would not be appropriate. It just doesn't work somehow; it would be disproportionate."
---David Cronenberg (x)
I think it was Flannery O'Connor who said something like "The only rules a writer is bound to are those that emerge from the work itself." I'm absolutely mangling that quote, but there you go.
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