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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.

David Lynch

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
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
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 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.
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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
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
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
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Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
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Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Be Yourself Meditation
We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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Dreams Image Ourselves
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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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.
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Meditation Place Transcendence Yourself
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Animal Beautiful Discover Myself World
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality 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
I just like going into strange worlds.
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Myself Strange World
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Childhood Disturb Happiness
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Artist Show Suffering
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
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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Absurd Life Myself
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
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
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
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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Fear Mystery Unknown

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