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 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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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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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.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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