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 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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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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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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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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Float with me in the world of ether.
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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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