David Lynch Quotes

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have...

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerou...

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pre...

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him what...

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you coul...

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end...

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's ...

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and ...

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I lo...

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, tr...

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this pai...

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's ...

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving ...

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss light...

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within,...

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The...

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely...

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets...

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a ma...

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cut...

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instan...

Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not alwa...

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahea...

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think...

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terr...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciou...

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to ...

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking abou...

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or uniqu...

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with ch...

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic...

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound...