Film Quotes by David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

— David Lynch

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

— David Lynch

“Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it’s right…

— David Lynch

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…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away…

— David Lynch

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…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch