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.
DAVID LYNCHThe more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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The world is as you 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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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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