Quotes About David Lynch

#1. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

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#2. The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

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#3. You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.

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#4. When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

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

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#6. 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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#7. Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

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#8. I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

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#9. The ideas dictate everything.

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#10. I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

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

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

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

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#14. I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint ... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

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#15. I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

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#16. In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

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#20. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

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

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#22. Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

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#23. Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

Cary Fukunaga

#24. It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

Laura Dern

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

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#26. 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.

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#27. The more you meditate the better life gets.

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#28. He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA

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#29. Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

Terry Zwigoff

#30. Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

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#31. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

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#32. Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

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#33. 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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#34. I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Olivier Megaton

#35. When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time ... and my father would bring paper home ... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns ... that was my favorite

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#36. 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.

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#37. Man is evolving ... but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

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#38. 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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#39. 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.

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

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#41. 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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#42. I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

Carmen Ejogo

#43. I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

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#44. I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

Kiefer Sutherland

#45. 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.

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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

#48. France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#49. I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

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#50. One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'

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#51. I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

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#52. It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

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#53. I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

Gina Rodriguez

#54. 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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#55. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Robyn Hitchcock

#56. Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

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#57. I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.

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#58. You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Danny Elfman

#59. I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

Trent Reznor

#60. 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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#61. Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

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

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

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#65. I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

Christian Louboutin

#66. Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

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#67. Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

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#68. Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and ... it's like attempting for something.

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#69. There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

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

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#71. I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

Amanda Palmer

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

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#73. I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

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#74. Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

David Sutcliffe

#75. 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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#76. The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

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#77. A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

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#78. The house is a place where things can go wrong.

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

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#80. I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

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#81. It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

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#82. Achievement is its own reward

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#83. 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

#84. Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.

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#85. You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

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

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#87. I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

Ben Daniels

#88. But if you know that you've got to be somewhere in half an hour, there's no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There's not always a lot of time for other things.

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#89. I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

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#90. 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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#91. See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

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#92. We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

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#93. Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

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#94. Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

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#95. I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

Olga Kurylenko

#96. I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

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#97. I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

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#98. As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

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#99. The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.

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

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