I love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCHBe true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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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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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 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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The world is as you are.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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All 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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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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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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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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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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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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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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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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 discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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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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