The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
DAVID LYNCHThe thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
DAVID LYNCHNew mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
DAVID LYNCHI 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 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 LYNCHSome things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCHIndividual peace is the unit of world peace.
DAVID LYNCHLife is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCHI don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCHDon’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.
DAVID LYNCHThe day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCHI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
DAVID LYNCHThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCHI 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 LYNCHI love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCHFilm 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.
DAVID LYNCH