Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCHWe’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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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The world is as you are.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Inside, 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.
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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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