I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.

David Lynch

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I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

David Lynch

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I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.

David Lynch

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I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

David Lynch

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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

David Lynch

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There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love.

David Lynch

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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

David Lynch

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Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

David Lynch

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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

David Lynch

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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

David Lynch

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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

David Lynch

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It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

David Lynch

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Absurdity is what I like most in life.

David Lynch

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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

David Lynch

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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch

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The world is as you are.

David Lynch

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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

David Lynch

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I love seeing people come out of darkness.

David Lynch

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You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

David Lynch

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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. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.

David Lynch

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I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.

David Lynch

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