If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
DAVID LYNCHLife is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
More David Lynch Quotes
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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The world is as you are.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
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Float with me in the world of ether.
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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