David Lynch Quotes

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

I think you have to be social when you make a movie, but you also have to have time to be alone.

Some things are just too mysterious to be explained.

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.

I believe that a lot of our pain and our suffering comes from trying to manage our experience.

You have to dream in order to make things happen.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

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

I’ve always loved stories that are about a world bigger than our own.

I don’t take any pictures except in my head.

In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.

I’m a great believer in intuition. It’s when you feel a connection to something, or you feel that something is right, or something is wrong.

I believe in an idea, an idea that a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind that’s consumed with a single purpose, that one man can win a war. Give that one man a handful of other people with the same heart and the same mind, and he will win not only war but peace.

Everywhere I go, I look for things to steal.

David Lynch Quotes part 2

Filmmaking is a different language.

I’m interested in things that are becoming, that feel like they’re becoming, that feel like they’re in the balance, just a hairsbreadth from tipping over into chaos.

What we perceive is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

I’m not an intellectual filmmaker. I very much go with the flow.

The thing about meditation is you become more and more you.

I believe that ideas exist independently of us.

Maybe the world is created in our minds, what we believe.

Cinema is a very language-oriented art, and Lynch is defiantly making an argument for film as a way of communicating emotions and abstract ideas.

Films are magic, and magic is life.

I don’t go looking for ideas. The ideas come looking for me.

The truth is that cinema is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the show. The gods have chosen me, and I can’t help it. So, you’re stuck with Mr. Cinema.

Life is very complicated and doesn’t make sense sometimes. It’s like a puzzle.

What you believe will be the architecture of your experience.

I’ve always been interested in things that are slightly out of the mainstream.

I just love stories and seeing them unfold.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.

I’m a great believer in found objects.

Where there’s light, there’s shadow, and where there’s shadow, there’s light. It’s all a balance.

Cinema, music, and art can change lives.

The thing about film is it’s like a puzzle.

Life is filled with a lot of things that don’t make sense.

The art of the film is a place where things can really be seen, understood, and dealt with.

Don’t try to be somebody else, just be who you are. However you are, that’s the way to do it.

I think people enjoy art that disturbs them, art that is not just entertaining but also touches something deeper inside.

Dreams are a way to bypass the normal filters of logic and reason.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that.

I like to create a worldview that exists just between a razor’s edge of beauty and catastrophes.

Art mirrors the way we experience the world, and sometimes the world can be very confusing.

I think suspense is a really important thing, and it’s all about withholding information.

Life is a trip, and art is the way to navigate it.

I think suffering brings you closer to understanding who you are.