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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.

David Lynch

Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Life Myself
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
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCH

Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
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
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
Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCH

Kind Man Nature Ourselves Rock Suffering
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
DAVID LYNCH

Day Food Instagram Captions Mystery
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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Expand Love Myself Mystery Secret
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual

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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