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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

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
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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Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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Age Body Change Person Talk
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Artist Show Suffering
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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Peace 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.
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Creation Kill Movie Yourself
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Mystery Powerful Sex Way
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
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.
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Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
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
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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Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Day Food Instagram Captions Mystery
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
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

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