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 LYNCHFilms are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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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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Float with me in the world of ether.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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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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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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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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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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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.
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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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The world is as you are.
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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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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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