We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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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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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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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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The world is as you are.
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Film 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.
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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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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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All 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.
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