QUOTED: Brandon Cronenberg on what’s really behind all that TIFF red carpet gawking

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I think celebrity obsession in our culture is a manifestation of a broader human impulse. If you look at, say, the saints, they were essentially elevated almost to the status of gods....I think that deification process and that fetishism is something that exists beyond our culture, this is just one manifestation of it.

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–Filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, director of Antiviral and son of David Cronenberg, talks celebrity obsession. [Grolsch Film Works]