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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

David Lynch

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.
DAVID LYNCH

Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCH

Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Age Body Change Person Talk
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
DAVID LYNCH

Ideas Mystery Oneself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Enemy Negative
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
The world is as you are.
DAVID LYNCH

One Liner World Yourself
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCH

Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCH

Big Forget Mental Remember
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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