I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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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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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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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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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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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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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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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