David Lynch quotes - page 4

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. (David Lynch)
I like things to be orderly. View quote
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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. View quote
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. View quote
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I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. View quote
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Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. View quote
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I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. View quote
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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. View quote
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A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. (David Lynch)
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. View quote
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Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. View quote
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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. View quote
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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. View quote
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I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. View quote
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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. (David Lynch)
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. View quote
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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. View quote
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