There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCHMy cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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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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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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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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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 love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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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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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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Float with me in the world of ether.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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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