Editing David Cronenberg (section)

==Personal life==
Cronenberg lives in [[Toronto]].{{sfn|Cronenberg|1992|p=1}} He married his first wife, Margaret Hindson, in 1972: their seven-year marriage ended in 1979 amidst personal and professional differences. They had one daughter, Cassandra Cronenberg. His second wife was film editor Carolyn Zeifman, to whom he was married from 1979 until her death in 2017.<ref name=carolyn>{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carolyn-cronenberg-dead-film-editor-david-cronenbergs-wife-was-66-1018686|title=Carolyn Cronenberg, Film Editor and Wife of David Cronenberg, Dies at 66|date=July 5, 2017|work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> The couple met on the set of ''Rabid'' while she was working as a production assistant.<ref name=carolyn /> They have two children, [[Caitlin Cronenberg|Caitlin]] and [[Brandon Cronenberg|Brandon]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Mottram, James |date=October 21, 2007|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/david-cronenberg-im-not-ready-to-embrace-hollywood-respectability-quite-yet-397311.html |title=David Cronenberg: 'I'm not ready to embrace Hollywood respectability quite yet|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> In the book ''Cronenberg on Cronenberg'' (1992), he revealed that ''[[The Brood]]'' was inspired by events that occurred during the unraveling of his first marriage, which caused both Cronenberg and his daughter Cassandra a great deal of turmoil. The character Nola Carveth, mother of the brood, is based on Cassandra's mother. Cronenberg said that he found the shooting of the climactic scene, in which Nola was strangled by her husband, to be "very satisfying".{{sfn|Cronenberg|1992|p=84}}

In a September 2013 interview, Cronenberg revealed that film director [[Martin Scorsese]] admitted to him that he was intrigued by Cronenberg's early work but was subsequently "terrified" to meet him in person. Cronenberg responded to Scorsese: "You're the guy who made ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' and you're afraid to meet me?"<ref name="Henry" /> In the same interview, Cronenberg identified as an [[atheist]]. "Anytime I've tried to imagine squeezing myself into the box of any particular religion, I find it claustrophobic and oppressive," Cronenberg elaborated. "I think atheism is an acceptance of what is real." In the same interview, Cronenberg revealed that it depends on the "time of day" as to whether or not he is afraid of death. He further stated that he is not concerned about posthumous representations of his film work: "It wouldn't disturb me to think that my work would just sink beneath the waves without trace and that would be it. So what? It doesn't bother me."<ref name="Henry" />

In ''Cronenberg on Cronenberg'', the director further elaborated that he was raised in a [[List of Jewish atheists and agnostics|secular Jewish]] home, and while he and his family had no disdain towards any religion, such matters were not discussed. In the same book, Cronenberg said that in his teens he went through a phase where he wondered about the existence of God, but ultimately came to the conclusion that the God concept was developed to cope with the fear of death.<ref name="Cronenberg, David 1992"/> In a 2007 interview, Cronenberg explained the role atheism plays in his work. He stated, "I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me."<ref>{{cite news|author=Guttsman, Janet|work=Reuters|date=September 10, 2007|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0824644320070910 |title=Cronenberg gets down and dirty with Russian mob}} "I'm an atheist," Cronenberg said."</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Interview|work= Esquire|date= February 1992}} "I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me."</ref>

In Cronenberg's later films (e.g. ''[[A History of Violence]]'', ''[[Eastern Promises]]'' and ''[[A Dangerous Method]]'') openly religious characters become more common. During an interview for ''A History of Violence'', Cronenberg even chose to identify as a [[materialist]] rather than an atheist, stating, "I'm not an atheist, but for me to turn away from any aspect of the human body to me is a philosophical betrayal. And there's a lot of art and religion whose whole purpose is to turn away from the human body. I feel in my art that my mandate is to not do that."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-02-09|title='A History of Violence': David Cronenberg's Superb Study of the Basic Impulses that Drive Humanity • Cinephilia & Beyond|url=https://cinephiliabeyond.org/a-history-of-violence/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Cinephilia & Beyond|language=en-US}}</ref>