I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
DAVID LYNCHAll 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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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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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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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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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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