Latest David Lynch Quotes from Interviews

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• Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Falling In Love, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse and worse. And I believe that world peace is coming quicker than we think. And I believe that people are not only yearning for it but will see a way to get it and help that way to come sooner. And it's going to be beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  "David Lynch: A Detailed Look At A 'Dark Night'". Interview With Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 11, 2009.

• I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.

  David Lynch

  People, Responsible

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra - the mantra that Maharishi gives is very specific, and you start to dive into subtler levels of mind, subtler levels of intellect. You transcend the whole show, into pure bliss consciousness. From your first meditation, you say, "Whoa!" It's a unique experience, but a familiar experience.

  David Lynch

  Unique, Giving, Car

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you make your first film, it's really hard in some ways. You're just nowhere. But then you have something. If you have a success, then you might be looking to take a fall. If you had a fall, you get a certain kind of euphoria because you're not dead, so you can still do it again. It's about how you go through the processes. Do you enjoy that "doing"? Is it getting less fun or more fun?

  David Lynch

  Fun, Fall, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Feelings, Intellectual

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes. When you put a sound to something and it's wrong, it's so obvious. When it's right, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's a magical thing that can happen in cinema.

  David Lynch

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I like people who, you know, as you go along in life, you know, a thing happens, and people become a seeker. They look for something to give them the path to their full potential. I like them to know about transcendental mediation, but they've got to make up their own mind to take it and use it.

  David Lynch

  People, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big theaters now that, you know, it's not quite really good for me, and if I made a feature film, I was think I'd play in LA and New York for a week, and then go right to television.

  David Lynch

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Age, Beautiful Things

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

  David Lynch

  Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• 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

• I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

  David Lynch

  Drug, Heroin, These Days

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

• Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

  David Lynch

  Ocean, Knowing, Intuition

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

• I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Numbers, Intuition

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

• In my case what happened is that within about two weeks of beginning meditation, the anger already started to go away. My wife came to me and said, "What's going on?" and I said, "What are you talking about?" To which she replied, "This anger, where did it go?" I didn't even realize that my anger had been going away.

  David Lynch

  Two, Talking, Wife

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

• They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Artist, Ideas

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

• Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded energy, and unbounded peace. And when students start expanding consciousness in those positive qualities, their relationships improve, their grades go up, their happiness goes up, the fighting and bullying stops, and things get very, very, very good.

  David Lynch

  Bullying, Ocean, Creativity

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

• The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Hate, Light

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

• Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, or TM as it's often referred to, allows students to dive in and experience the unbounded ocean of consciousness within each of us, the big treasury, the field within each of us that is the base of all matter and all mind. It's been found that transcending and experiencing that unbounded, eternal level of life does wonders for education, and for human beings.

  David Lynch

  Ocean, Meditation, Mind

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

• With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

  David Lynch

  Ocean, Consciousness

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

• Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Rooms, Sometimes

• Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Memories, Powerful