We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
DAVID LYNCHWe only dream of images we already have inside of us.
DAVID LYNCHThe world is as you are.
DAVID LYNCHThe cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
DAVID LYNCHTenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCHI 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 LYNCHI 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 LYNCHThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCHIt’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 LYNCHBlack 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 LYNCHMany things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCHWhat do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
DAVID LYNCHCinema 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.
DAVID LYNCHI 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 LYNCHThe more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCHWe think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCHThere’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
DAVID LYNCH