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Cinema Quotes by David Lynch

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David Lynch believes cinema can pull us into another world where real emotions surface. He notes that life‑and‑death struggles on screen make us sit up and pay attention. He also calls film a magical medium that lets us dream, even as the industry shifts rapidly.

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“(about cinema) It's like opening a door and go into a new world.”

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

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

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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

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Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can…

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If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

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

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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and…

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Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and…

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More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the…

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

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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

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Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out…

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You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that.…

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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…

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A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing…

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In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire…

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I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I…

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I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound…

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It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you…

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In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively…

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Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has…

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Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to…

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Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and…

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Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't…

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When you make your first film, it's really hard in some ways. You're just nowhere. But then you have something. If you…

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I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the…

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Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a…

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Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that…

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

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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

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

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

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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's…

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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.

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Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money...

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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think…

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Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

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I love seeing people come out of darkness.

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So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time;…

Achievement is its own reward

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

“The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with…

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

If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment…

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