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.
DAVID LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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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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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The world is as you are.
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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
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