Top 100 Quotes About David Lynch
#1. 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
#2. It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern
#3. 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
#4. I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
Olivier Megaton
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.
Gina Rodriguez
#10. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Robyn Hitchcock
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
Amanda Palmer
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
Olga Kurylenko
#18. Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.
Robert Loggia
#19. All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
Bat For Lashes
#20. My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
Madchen Amick
#21. I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.
Michael J. Anderson
#22. I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.
Gwendoline Christie
#23. I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern
#24. The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.
Richard Kadrey
#25. David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.
Charlie Kaufman
#26. But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini
#27. They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.
Virginia Madsen
#28. I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.
Isabella Rossellini
#29. 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
#30. I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
Greg Egan
#31. David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
Martin Short
#32. I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.
Anthony Hopkins
#33. I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage ... it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.
Roy Orbison
#35. 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
#36. 'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.
Mark Frost
#37. David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.
Richard Farnsworth
#38. I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.
Fred Seibert
#39. The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch
Karen Joy Fowler
#40. I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
Mary Harron
#41. I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting
#42. David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet
Isabella Rossellini
#44. I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
Sheryl Lee
#45. Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
David Foster Wallace
#46. I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
Ville Valo
#47. No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
Richard Farnsworth
#48. The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree ... Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.
David Foster Wallace
#49. I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by the time I do a film, my films will be as recognizable as someone like David Lynch or someone who's got their own thing going on.
Chris Cunningham
#50. It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'
Rob Sheffield
#51. 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.
David Lynch
#52. 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.
David Lynch
#53. 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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#54. When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.
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#55. If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.
David Lynch
#56. I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
David Lynch
#57. 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.
David Lynch
#58. 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.
David Lynch
#60. 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.
David Lynch
#61. I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
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#62. The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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#63. Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.
David Lynch
#64. 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.
David Lynch
#65. I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
David Lynch
#66. 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.
David Lynch
#67. 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.
David Lynch
#68. 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.
David Lynch
#69. Sometimes film kills the room to dream.
David Lynch
#70. 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.
David Lynch
#71. I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
David Lynch
#72. 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.
David Lynch
#73. Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.
David Lynch
#74. 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
#75. The more you meditate the better life gets.
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#76. 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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#77. 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.
David Lynch
#78. 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.
David Lynch
#79. 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.
David Lynch
#80. 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
#81. 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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#82. 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
#83. 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.
David Lynch
#84. Music has fed me a lot of ideas ... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
David Lynch
#85. 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.
David Lynch
#86. Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].
David Lynch
#87. 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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#88. I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
David Lynch
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.
David Lynch
#92. 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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#93. 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.
David Lynch
#94. 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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#95. 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.
David Lynch
#96. 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.
David Lynch
#97. 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.
David Lynch
#98. I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
David Lynch
#99. 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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#100. We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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