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 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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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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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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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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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Float with me in the world of ether.
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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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