I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
DAVID LYNCHDon’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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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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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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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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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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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