„One of the unique things about these people is that they kind of mythologized themselves," he said. "Their intellectual passions were not just abstract -- they tried to embody them, they tried to bring them into their own lives and live out of them. And so they could very easily see themselves being characters in a Wagnerian opera. […] The idea was that [Sabina] would have a sinful relationship with Jung and then give birth to this hero, this heroic Siegfried.“ – Cronenberg im Interview, ‘A Dangerous Method’, ‘Melancholia’ take cues from Richard Wagner, Webseite der Los Angeles Times vom 25. November 2011
“I consider myself an existentialist and an atheist, and I think that body is what we are. That’s not diminishing it to me, it’s just accepting the reality of it. So, if the human body is the first fact of human existence, then immediately you see why I focus on the body.” – Marlow Stern: David Cronenberg on ‘A Dangerous Method,’ Robert Pattinson’s Acting, and S&M With Keira Knightley, The Daily Beast vom 20. November 2011, abgerufen am 12. November 2012.
“It’s the movie that tells you what it wants. That era was very controlled and the feeling was that everybody knew his place. You can see by the high white collars and corsets and stuff, everything was controlled. So, I think in a way the style of the film comes to me from what we were trying to create…” – "A Dangerous Method - David Cronenberg interview" (Memento vom 14. Mai 2012 im Internet Archive), wiedergegeben auf Indielondon.co.uk, abgerufen am 17. November 2012.
