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.
DAVID LYNCHMankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
More David Lynch Quotes
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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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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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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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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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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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