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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.

David Lynch

There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
DAVID LYNCH

Fear Mystery Unknown
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCH

Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
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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Fall Happiness Myself People Time
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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Cow Myself Perspective Sight
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCH

Abstract Art Sanity
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering
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 LYNCH

Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean

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