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.
DAVID LYNCHI 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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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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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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The world is as you are.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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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.
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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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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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