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Ideas Quotes by David Lynch

40 Ideas quotes by David Lynch

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A filmmaker says falling in love with an idea leaves little choice but to follow it down a street, even if it feels wrong. The quotes describe scripts as puzzles made of many idea fragments and note that sound and mystery are essential to generating new concepts. They also observe that cinema can translate ideas into pictures.

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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

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The ideas dictate everything.

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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

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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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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

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

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

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Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere…

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I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest,…

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I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream…

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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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I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness…

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Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you…

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When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down…

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Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what…

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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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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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Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it…

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When we transcend we are diving into a field of unbounded creativity. This is real creativity and when we experience that and…

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I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing.…

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Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing,…

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I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition.…

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Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful…

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They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But…

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To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many…

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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a…

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Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of…

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You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing…

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See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an…

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It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70…

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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want…

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Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How…

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Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let…

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People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get…

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I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in…

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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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When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or…

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