This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCHI discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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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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.
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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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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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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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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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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.
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The world is as you are.
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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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