David Lynch Quotes

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

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

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.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

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

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

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

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

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

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

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

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

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.

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

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.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

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

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

I just like going into strange worlds.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

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.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

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.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

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.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

The world is as you are.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

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.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.