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.
DAVID LYNCHI 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
DAVID LYNCHA 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 LYNCHFloat with me in the world of ether.
DAVID LYNCHThere is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCHIf 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCHIt’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
DAVID LYNCHDon’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.
DAVID LYNCHSex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCHMy cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
DAVID LYNCHNew mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
DAVID LYNCHI love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCHCinema 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.
DAVID LYNCHThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH