Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
DAVID LYNCHSome things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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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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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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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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.
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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.
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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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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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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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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