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 LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
More David Lynch Quotes
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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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