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• 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.

  David Lynch

  Interesting, Confusion, Darkness

  "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film". Book by Joseph Maddrey (p. 160), 2004.

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• The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now the storytelling's the same. You got different tools. That's all.

  David Lynch

  Technology, Different, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Ideas, People

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Powerful

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

  David Lynch

  Meditation, Answers, Be True To Yourself

  "Watch: David Lynch Gives Some Pithy Filmmaking Advice On Instagram" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Artist, Life And Death, Suffering

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• Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Ideas, World

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• I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.

  David Lynch

  Moving, Night, Two

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• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

  David Lynch

  Sex, Powerful, Doorways

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.

  David Lynch

  Ocean, Knowing, Intuition

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

  David Lynch

  Fall, Cutting, Cupcakes

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• They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.

  David Lynch

  Zero, Feet, Negativity

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

  David Lynch

  Sound, Sometimes, Film

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  David Lynch

  Car, Meditation, Technique

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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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.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Blessing, Meditation

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• My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

  David Lynch

  Cows, Not Pretty

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• We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  David Lynch

  Believe, Should Have, Creative

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

  David Lynch

  Insanity, Jazz, Closest

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Creativity, Hopeful, Transition

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• 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.

  David Lynch

  Dream, People, Important

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• When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

  David Lynch

  Tough, Going Gets Tough

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• During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

  David Lynch

  Sadness, Dark, Feelings

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

  David Lynch

  Sick, Want, Film

  Dune Interview, www.youtube.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The ideas dictate everything.

  David Lynch

  Ideas

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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