David Lynch Quotes
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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 love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.
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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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I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
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I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
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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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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
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Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
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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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Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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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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In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
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I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
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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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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it.
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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.