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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

David Lynch

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
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCH

Importance Time
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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Deep Enough Fear Love Philosophy Possible Yourself
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
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
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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Different Ideas Medium Movie Translation Yourself
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
DAVID LYNCH

Peace 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
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCH

Mystery Powerful Sex Way
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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Beautiful Failure Freedom Greatness Journey Path Way
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Allow Complication Life Movie
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
DAVID LYNCH

Emotion Power Reality Yourself
Float with me in the world of ether.
DAVID LYNCH

Love Myself Relationship World
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
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Enemy Negative

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