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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

David Lynch

Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
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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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
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Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
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Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
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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Black Dreams Love Start 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.
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Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
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.
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Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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Lost Movie Myself World
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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Add Discover Ideal Movie World
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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Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Emotion Power Reality Yourself

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