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.
DAVID LYNCHLife is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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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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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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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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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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