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David Lynch

(1946–2025) Singer

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David Lynch was a singer, best known for Room to Dream.

Quick Facts About David Lynch

Born: January 20, 1946
Died: January 16, 2025
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Room to Dream

About David Lynch

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". He is often credited with bringing surrealism and experimentalism to mainstream media in the late 20th century. In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, an Independent Spirit Award, a Saturn Award, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by David Lynch · Page 6

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

Darkness

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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…

Beautiful

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Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

Art

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The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty…

Bigs

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“(about cinema) It's like opening a door and go into a new world.”

Cinema

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“I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time.…

Ahead of time

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“Inside every human being is an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness. When you “transcend” in Transcendental Meditation, you dive down into that…

Creativity

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It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Absurdity

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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Art

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The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and…

Another world

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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…

Chairs

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I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to…

Atmosphere

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In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire…

Cinema

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I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of…

Black

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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.

Catching

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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

About

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“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

Painting

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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…

Church

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Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

Religion

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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…

Acting

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I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful…

Beautiful

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In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience…

Bliss

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I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like…

Bob

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I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing,…

Absurdity

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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…

Cinema

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