487 Quotes by David Lynch

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

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

Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

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

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

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 a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.