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Ideas Quotes by David Lynch
- Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it…
- Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
- Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is.…
- Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
- The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
- I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet…
- Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire…
- Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
- 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…
- I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
- Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit.…
- I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and…
- The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
- 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 is a medium that can translate ideas.
- I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
- To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go…
- 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…
- You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is,…
- Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the…
- If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe