David Lynch Quotes

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  • I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

  • I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

    David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.132, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

    "David Lynch Meditates on Peace". Interview with Scoop A. Wasserstein, www.thecrimson.com. September 30, 2005.
  • 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.

  • It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

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  • When you sleep, you don`t control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

  • Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

    Ideas  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

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    "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity". Book by David Lynch, December 27, 2007.
  • When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

  • This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.

  • 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. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

    "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.
  • When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes. When you put a sound to something and it's wrong, it's so obvious. When it's right, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's a magical thing that can happen in cinema.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

  • In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

    "Paul McCartney signs on for NYC benefit" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2009.
  • When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

  • My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  • The more you meditate the better life gets.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

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

  • Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.

    "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

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

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  • We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

  • I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

    "Watch: David Lynch Gives Some Pithy Filmmaking Advice On Instagram" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. August 28, 2013.
  • Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.

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