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 LYNCHMystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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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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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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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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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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