All David Lynch Quotes
- The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. Dead
- A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. Especially
- I like things to be orderly. Funny
- My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. Cow
- Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. Cinema
- A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. Death
- Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. Building
- Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. Cinema
- 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. Beautiful
- Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. Cinema
- Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. All
- Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. Bacon
- Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real… Absurd
- I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. Always Loved
- I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. Blues
- I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. Edison
- I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. Catching
- I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. Almost Burned
- I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. Cameras
- I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. Carpentry
- I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. Church
- I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. Inspirational
- I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. Always Loved
- I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. All
- More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they… Computer