I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
DAVID LYNCHI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
DAVID LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCHMankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCHMy cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
DAVID LYNCHI discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
DAVID LYNCHWhat do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
DAVID LYNCHWhen you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCHIf 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.
DAVID LYNCHI 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.
DAVID LYNCHI 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.
DAVID LYNCHThere is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCHBeing 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.
DAVID LYNCHI like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
DAVID LYNCHA 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.
DAVID LYNCHIntuition 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCH