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 LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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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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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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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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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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