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 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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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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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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.
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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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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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The world is as you are.
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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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