The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
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The world is as you are.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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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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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
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We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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.
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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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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
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Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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