David Lynch quotes - page 2

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. (David Lynch)
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. View quote
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There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. View quote
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There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. View quote
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In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent. View quote
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Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not a political person. ... I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward. View quote
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I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets... Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream. View quote
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I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything. View quote
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I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. (David Lynch)
The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it. View quote
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I guess I got whacked hard in the mystery department when I was little. I found the world completely and totally fascinating then - it was like a dream. They say that people who think they had a happy childhood are blocking something out, but I think I really had one. Of course I had the usual fears, like going to school - I knew there was some sort of problem there. But every other person sensed that problem too, so my fears were pretty normal. View quote
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Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. I'm getting a lot better. The first interview I ever did was in 1972, I believe, and I couldn't speak. I couldn't speak one word. I only said, "I painted it black." View quote
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Language is an evil thing, a very evil thing. And a force to be reckoned with. View quote
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The sick reality about our over dependance on language is that trying to live without it is like a blind and deaf man with no arms or legs trying to navigate a dark narrow cave, and the cave is full of tarantulas. View quote
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It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It is better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for someone else. View quote
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There are so many clues and feelings in the world that it makes a mystery and a mystery means there's a puzzle to be solved. Once you think like that you're hooked on probably finding a meaning, and there' many avenues in life where we're given little indications that the mystery can one day be solved. we get little proofs, - not the big proof - but the little proofs that keep us searching. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's this beautiful ocean of bliss and consciousness that is able to be reached by any human being by diving within, which is really peaceful and harmonious and can be enlivened by the group process. View quote
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It's not just words or music - it's a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn't exist before. It's telling stories. It's devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film. (David Lynch)
Then Dennis called and said, 'I have to play Frank, because I am Frank.' That thrilled me, and scared me. View quote
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Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. View quote
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An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark. View quote
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You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen. View quote
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