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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.

David Lynch

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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Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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Cow Myself Perspective Sight
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
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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Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
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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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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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Add Discover Ideal Movie World
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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Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
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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Creation Kill Movie Yourself
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Mystery Powerful Sex Way
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
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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Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie

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