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 LYNCHNegativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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