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 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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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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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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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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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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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