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Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

The world is as you are.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

Mankind was not meant to suffer
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

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

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

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.

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.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

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.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas ... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

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.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Achievement is its own reward

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

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.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

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.

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

The more you meditate the better life gets.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

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.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

The house is a place where things can go wrong.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

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.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

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

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

What I really like is to be at home, working.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

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

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.