We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
DAVID LYNCHMany things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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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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The world is as you are.
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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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Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
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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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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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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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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.
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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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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
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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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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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Float with me in the world of ether.
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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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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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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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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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