I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. David Lynch More Quotes by David Lynch More Quotes From David Lynch I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful. David Lynch hate mistake beautiful Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream. David Lynch black depth dream Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition. David Lynch heads-or-tails intuition way Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily. David Lynch creative fear people I just like going into strange worlds. David Lynch relay-races strange world Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world. David Lynch selfish meditation world Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! David Lynch fire two past All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds. David Lynch strange important world Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later. David Lynch significance happens littles I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. David Lynch happened remember way Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. David Lynch film complicated life-is Negativity is the enemy of creativity. David Lynch negativity creativity enemy Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation. David Lynch be-true-to-yourself meditation answers Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. David Lynch confusion darkness interesting Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract. David Lynch dream people ideas There is an ocean of creativity within every human being. David Lynch creativity ocean humans When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema. David Lynch cinema emotion real Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. David Lynch powerful doorways sex 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. David Lynch creativity keys thinking We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking. David Lynch beautiful people thinking