Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
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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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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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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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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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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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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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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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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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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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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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