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 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.
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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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The world is as you are.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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