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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

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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Fall Happiness Myself People Time
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
DAVID LYNCH

Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Add Discover Ideal Movie World
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
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Creativity Ocean Powerful
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Darkness Love Myself People
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
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
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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Day Food Instagram Captions Mystery
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCH

Adult Experience Imagination Thinking Understand
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Myself Necessary Remember Way
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCH

Mystery Powerful Sex Way
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
DAVID LYNCH

Meditation Place Transcendence 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
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
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCH

Big Forget Mental Remember
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Black Dreams Love Start Yourself

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