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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

David Lynch

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCH

Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
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

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Life Myself
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCH

Importance Time
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
DAVID LYNCH

Allow Complication Life Movie
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCH

Abstract Art Sanity
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 LYNCH

Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
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
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
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 LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Experience Movie Sound
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
DAVID LYNCH

Animal Beautiful Discover Myself World
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
DAVID LYNCH

Ideas Mystery Oneself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Love Myself People
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

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