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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.

David Lynch

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
DAVID LYNCH

Ideas Mystery Oneself
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCH

Importance Time
Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCH

Kind Man Nature Ourselves Rock Suffering
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Life Myself
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCH

Big Forget Mental Remember
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Black Dreams Love Start Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
I just like going into strange worlds.
DAVID LYNCH

Myself Strange World
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH

Heart Top Wild World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
DAVID LYNCH

Meditation Place Transcendence Yourself
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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Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
DAVID LYNCH

Age Body Change Person Talk
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Ocean Powerful
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH

Childhood Disturb Happiness
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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Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
The world is as you are.
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One Liner World Yourself
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
DAVID LYNCH

Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
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 LYNCH

Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself

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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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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