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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

David Lynch

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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Build Important Movie Myself Strange World
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Human Ocean
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
DAVID LYNCH

Head Intuition Life Philosophy Spiritual
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
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Black Dreams Love Start Yourself
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
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH

Heart Top Wild World
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
Float with me in the world of ether.
DAVID LYNCH

Love Myself Relationship World
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
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
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Enemy Negative
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking

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