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.
DAVID LYNCHI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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.
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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 like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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 day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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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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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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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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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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