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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

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
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Abstract Art Sanity
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
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Artist Show Suffering
Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Answer Meditation Start Transcendence True
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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Ideas Mystery Oneself
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Negative
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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Achievement Creativity Electricity Goal Music Peace Thrill
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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Play Sound Visual
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Emotion Power Reality Yourself
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.
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Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
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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Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
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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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself

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