David Lynch quotes - page 6

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. (David Lynch)

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

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Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

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I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

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I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

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I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

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I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

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The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

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Sugar 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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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. (David Lynch)

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

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The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

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Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

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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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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

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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 was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. (David Lynch)

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

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People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

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I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

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Occupation: American Filmmaker
Born: January 20, 1946
Died: January 16, 2025
Quotes count: 156
Wikipedia: David Lynch

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