David Lynch Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Lynch
David Lynch Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from David Lynch on Wise Famous Quotes.
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
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.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
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?
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.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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.
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.
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.
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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.
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
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.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.