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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.

David Lynch

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Expand Love Myself Mystery Secret
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
Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCH

Kind Man Nature Ourselves Rock Suffering
Float with me in the world of ether.
DAVID LYNCH

Love Myself Relationship World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
DAVID LYNCH

Big Forget Mental Remember
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
DAVID LYNCH

Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
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 LYNCH

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird

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