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 LYNCHAll 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.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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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.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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 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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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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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.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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.
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Float with me in the world of ether.
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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.
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