(Above: Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts appear in a scene from Eastern Promises.)
Last month, I had the chance to sit down with David Cronenberg, the master director who needs no introduction. We talked about his recent film Eastern Promises – which is available on DVD as of today – as well as violence in movies, and Alfred Hitchcock.
You once said you were not interested in the mechanics of the mob or criminality in movies, but people who live in the perpetual state of transgression.