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.
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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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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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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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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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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