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.
DAVID LYNCHMeditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
More David Lynch Quotes
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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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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 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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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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The world is as you are.
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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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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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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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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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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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