The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time;… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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