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.
DAVID LYNCHI just like going into strange worlds.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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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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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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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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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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.
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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.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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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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