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.
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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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The world is as you are.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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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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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Float with me in the world of ether.
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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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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
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