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.
DAVID LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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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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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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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 like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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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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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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.
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