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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.

David Lynch

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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Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Be Yourself Meditation
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.
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Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
Meditation 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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Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
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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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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Dreams Image Ourselves
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Heart Top Wild World
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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Creation Kill Movie Yourself
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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Cow Myself Perspective Sight
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Animal Beautiful Discover Myself World
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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Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Mystery Powerful Sex Way
Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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Fall Happiness Myself People Time
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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Lost Movie Myself World

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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