Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
DAVID LYNCHI like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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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.
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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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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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