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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even… — 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
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
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
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
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
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. — 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
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
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — 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
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
