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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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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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 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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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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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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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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The world is as you are.
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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 more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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