Quotes by David Lynch

David Lynch

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.

Can Do

Film

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

Knowing Nothing

Thinking

World

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.

Filmmaker

Scene

Suffering

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

Creativity

Real

Strong

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.

Different

Interesting

Soul

A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that’s really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes – it’s all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it’s everything goes; it’s a such a beautiful world.

Beautiful

Cds

People

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It’s a horror. I can’t really listen to the music. I’m not really concentrating on it, and I’m not really concentrating on the painting.

Hate

Painting

Thinking

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

Beautiful

Thinking

Writing

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Running

Struggle

Wall

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Absurdity

Absurdity Of Life

Bloody

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Abstract

Absurdity

Absurdity Of Life

Achievement

Actors

Adults

Age

Airplane

Amplify

Animal

Answers

Appreciation

Art

Artist

Atmosphere

Attempting

Attitude

Balance

Balls

Be True To Yourself

Beautiful

Beautiful Things

Being True

Believe

Bells

Better Life

Big Fish

Black

Black And White

Blessed

Blessing

Bliss

Bloody

Blue

Bob

Body

Book

Born

Boys

Bugs

Building

Bullying

Burned

Cameras

Can Do

Cappuccino

Car

Cards

Care

Cds

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Quotes by David Lynch

David Lynch

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.

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

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.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

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.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It’s a horror. I can’t really listen to the music. I’m not really concentrating on it, and I’m not really concentrating on the painting.

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

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