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Film Quotes by David Lynch
- Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
- Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind…
- 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 important about film…
- It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a…
- Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
- In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These…
- Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money...
- People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that…
- Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
- 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.
- 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.
- Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
- 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…
- I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.
- More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they…
- There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
- If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a…
- An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it…
- I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the…
- I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way,…
- 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 go to a…
- In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood.…
- See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a…
- The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening…
- If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
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- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
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