I love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCHI love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCHSecrets 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.
DAVID LYNCHCinema 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.
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 LYNCHInside, 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCHI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
DAVID LYNCHThis whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCHBlack has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
DAVID LYNCHSex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCHAll 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCHA 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.
DAVID LYNCHAbsurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCHIntuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
DAVID LYNCHI just like going into strange worlds.
DAVID LYNCH