David Lynch Quotes

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

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.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

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.

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.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

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.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

The more you meditate the better life gets.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

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.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.