When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCHIntuition 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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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.
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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.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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The world is as you are.
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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 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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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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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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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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