David Lynch Short Quotes

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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

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Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too.

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I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

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I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.

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We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

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

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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.

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I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

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As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

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When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

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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.

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One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said let's not do these things anymore — let's have fun.

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A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

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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.

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Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

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The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that.... It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.

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Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

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All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

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When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

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