Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCHI love seeing people come out of darkness.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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 thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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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 don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
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The world is as you are.
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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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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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