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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

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David Lynch
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 20
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Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.
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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.
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I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
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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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Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.
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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.
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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
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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?
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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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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
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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.
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Sometimes film kills the room to dream.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
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