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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

David Lynch

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
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
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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Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Big Forget Mental Remember
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Creativity Human Ocean
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.
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Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
Float with me in the world of ether.
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Love Myself Relationship World
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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Importance Time
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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Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
The world is as you are.
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One Liner World Yourself
You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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Meditation Place Transcendence Yourself
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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Fear Mystery Unknown
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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Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
I just like going into strange worlds.
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Myself Strange World
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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Emotion Power Reality Yourself
I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Darkness Love Myself People
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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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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Answer Meditation Start Transcendence True
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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Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Be Yourself Meditation
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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Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Mystery Powerful Sex Way
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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Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Heart Top Wild World
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
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.
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Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

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