I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
DAVID LYNCHI discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
DAVID LYNCHThe day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCHThere’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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 LYNCHThe artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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 LYNCHIntuition 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.
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 LYNCHWe only dream of images we already have inside of us.
DAVID LYNCHI don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCHA 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 LYNCHAll 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.
DAVID LYNCHI like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
DAVID LYNCHSex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCHThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCHIntuition 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.
DAVID LYNCH