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 LYNCHI don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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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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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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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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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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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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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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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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 like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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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 world is as you are.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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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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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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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.
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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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.
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