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 LYNCHSugar 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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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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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.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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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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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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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.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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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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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.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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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.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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The world is as you are.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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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