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If 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.

David Lynch

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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Add Discover Ideal Movie World
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
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
If 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.
DAVID LYNCH

Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Life Myself
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality 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.
DAVID LYNCH

Age Body Change Person Talk
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
DAVID LYNCH

Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCH

Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Failure Freedom Greatness Journey Path Way
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Love Myself People
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCH

Mystery Powerful Sex Way
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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself

If 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.

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If 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.

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