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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

David Lynch

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Mystery Powerful Sex Way
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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Add Discover Ideal Movie World
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Emotion Power Reality Yourself
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
I just like going into strange worlds.
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Myself Strange World
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
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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Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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Dreams Image Ourselves
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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Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
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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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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.
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Absurd Try Verbal Word 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.
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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
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.
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Age Body Change Person Talk

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