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Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?
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.
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
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.
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
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.
Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
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.
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.
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.
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.
Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.
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.
I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
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.
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.
I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.
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.
I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.