We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCHThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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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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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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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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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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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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 only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
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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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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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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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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