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 LYNCHWhen you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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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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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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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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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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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.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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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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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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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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