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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.

David Lynch

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
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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Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
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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Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
I just like going into strange worlds.
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Myself Strange World
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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Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
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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Adult Experience Imagination Thinking Understand
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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Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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Ideas Mystery Oneself
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
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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Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Animal Beautiful Discover Myself World
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
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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Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
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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Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
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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Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Answer Meditation Start Transcendence True
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
Float with me in the world of ether.
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Love Myself Relationship World
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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Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Emotion Power Reality Yourself
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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Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
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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Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way

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