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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.

David Lynch

I just like going into strange worlds.
DAVID LYNCH

Myself Strange World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Ocean Powerful
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

Death Movie Scene Suffering 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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering
The world is as you are.
DAVID LYNCH

One Liner World Yourself
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
DAVID LYNCH

Peace World
Float with me in the world of ether.
DAVID LYNCH

Love Myself Relationship World
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 LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCH

Importance Time
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
DAVID LYNCH

Add Discover Ideal Movie World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
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 LYNCH

Build Experience Movie Sound
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
DAVID LYNCH

Fear Mystery Unknown
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
DAVID LYNCH

Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH

Childhood Disturb Happiness
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCH

Abstract Art Sanity
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCH

Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Love Myself People
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself

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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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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