Top 317 Quotes & Sayings by David Lynch
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director David Lynch.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
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.
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.
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
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.
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.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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.
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.
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.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
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.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
I like things to be orderly.
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
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.
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.
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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.
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
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.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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.
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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.
Related Authors
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes
Mexican
Director
Ava DuVernay Quotes
American
Director
Gaspar Noe Quotes
Argentinian
Director
George Lucas Quotes
American
Director
Guillermo del Toro Quotes
Mexican
Director
John Waters Quotes
American
Director
Judd Apatow Quotes
American
Director
Martin Scorsese Quotes
American
Director
Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Danish
Director
Oliver Stone Quotes
American
Director
Peter Jackson Quotes
New Zealander
Director
Quentin Tarantino Quotes
American
Director
Ridley Scott Quotes
British
Director
Steven Spielberg Quotes
American
Director
Werner Herzog Quotes
German
Director
Woody Allen Quotes
American
Director