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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.

David Lynch

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
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Ocean Powerful
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
DAVID LYNCH

Meditation Place Transcendence Yourself
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Enemy Negative
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
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
DAVID LYNCH

Answer Meditation Start Transcendence True
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
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 started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
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
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
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself

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