Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Secrets 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.
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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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