I just like going into strange worlds.
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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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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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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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.
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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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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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