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  • Film Director
  • born 1946
  • 317 quotes

David Lynch, Film Director (born 1946), is quoted 317 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Mystery, World, Ideas and Creativity.

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The world is as you are.

I like things to be orderly.

The ideas dictate everything.

Achievement is its own reward

Float with me in the world of ether.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

I just like going into strange worlds.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

The more you meditate the better life gets.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

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

What I really like is to be at home, working.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

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

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

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

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

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

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

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

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

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

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

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