David Lynch
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.Collection: Religion
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Humor
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.Collection: Music
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Intelligence
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Happiness
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Future
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Death
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!Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Space
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Experience
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Humor
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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.
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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.
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
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.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
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.
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.
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.
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
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.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
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.