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David Lynch Quotes

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.

– David Lynch

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.

– David Lynch

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

– David Lynch

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

– David Lynch

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

– David Lynch

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

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

– David Lynch

The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.

– David Lynch

I didn’t watch much TV as a kid and I don’ t watch it now. I don’ t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can’t do in film is make a continuing story – which is so cool!

– David Lynch

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You’ve got to plug this painting in, and it’s got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

– David Lynch

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

– David Lynch

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

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

– 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

People think in Hollywood there’s a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it’s just not that way at all to me.

– David Lynch

I like things to be orderly.

– David Lynch

I’ve loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

– David Lynch

Music deals with time and timing. It’s so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it’s critical, so critical. And if it’s not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

– David Lynch

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

– David Lynch

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.

– David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

– David Lynch

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

– David Lynch

I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.

– David Lynch

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

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.

– David Lynch

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

– David Lynch

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

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

If we didn’t want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

– David Lynch

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

– David Lynch

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