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Thinking Quotes by David Lynch

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David Lynch says intuition guides everything—from painting to movies and even business. He points out that people see time in very different ways, like the long cycles the Hindus imagine. He also notes that most Hollywood movies are made to make money, not just for art.

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I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

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People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's…

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My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what…

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

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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 don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's…

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We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want…

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I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems…

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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great…

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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

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I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like…

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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think…

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I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of…

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A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I…

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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the…

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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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If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and…

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

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I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a…

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I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know…

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

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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

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There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into…

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

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I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with…

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As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20…

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Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money...

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Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and…

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I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on…

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Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much…

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I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse…

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The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big…

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The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood.…

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I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably…

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Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort…

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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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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

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

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

If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment…

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.