Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCHI love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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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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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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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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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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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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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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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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