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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.

David Lynch

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 LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
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Build Experience Movie Sound
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCH

Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
DAVID LYNCH

Deep Enough Fear Love Philosophy Possible Yourself
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
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
DAVID LYNCH

Peace World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
DAVID LYNCH

Myself Necessary Remember Way
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH

Childhood Disturb Happiness
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
DAVID LYNCH

Cow Myself Perspective Sight
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

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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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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