We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCHIf 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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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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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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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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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