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The world is as you are.
— David Lynch
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
— David Lynch
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
— David Lynch
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
— David Lynch
It's crazy to close doors to any genres.
— David Lynch
There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery
— David Lynch
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
— David Lynch
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
— David Lynch
Float with me in the world of ether.
— David Lynch
I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
— David Lynch
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?
— David Lynch
Mankind was not meant to suffer
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. — David Lynch
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. — David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
— David Lynch
I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.
— Christian Louboutin
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?
— Gillian Armstrong
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
— David Lynch
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
— David Lynch
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
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
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.
— David Lynch
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
— David Lynch
I like things to be orderly.
— David Lynch
That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.
— David Lynch
I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
— David Lynch
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
— David Lynch
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
— Sting
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.
— David Lynch
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
— David Lynch
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
— David Lynch
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
— David Lynch
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
— David Lynch
I love pop culture
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami
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
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
— David Lynch
What I really like is to be at home, working.
— David Lynch
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
— David Lynch
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
— David Lynch
I'd like to work with David Lynch again.
— Melissa George
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
— David Lynch
The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.
— Richard Kadrey
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
— David Lynch
I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.
— Michael J. Anderson
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
— David Lynch
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
— David Lynch
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
— Richard Beymer
Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
— David Lynch
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
— David Lynch
Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
— David Lynch
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
— David Lynch
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
— David Lynch
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
— David Lynch
No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
— Richard Farnsworth
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.
— David Lynch
I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
— Mary Harron
Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.
— Gina Rodriguez
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
— David Lynch
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
— David Lynch
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.
— David Lynch
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
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
— David Lynch
The house is a place where things can go wrong.
— David Lynch
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
— Moby
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.
— David Lynch
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
— David Lynch
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
— David Lynch
I'm a big David Lynch fan.
— Jonathan Davis
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
— Robyn Hitchcock
If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.
— David Lynch
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
— David Lynch
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
— David Lynch
Sometimes film kills the room to dream.
— David Lynch
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
— David Lynch
I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
— Olivier Megaton