My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a… — 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
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get… — 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… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money... — 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
