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 LYNCHThe cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
More David Lynch Quotes
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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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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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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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The world is as you are.
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It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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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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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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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.
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