We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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The world is as you are.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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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Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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