QUOTES by David Lynch
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The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
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I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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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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Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
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Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
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I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
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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.
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I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.
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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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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.
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Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.
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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.
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I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
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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.
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See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
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I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.
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I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
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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.
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Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
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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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I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
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Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
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I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.
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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
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A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.
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I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
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You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.
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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
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In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
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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.
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I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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.
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Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.
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I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
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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.
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I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
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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.
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Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
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I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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