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.
DAVID LYNCHFilm 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.
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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.
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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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When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Float with me in the world of ether.
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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.
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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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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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