487 Quotes by David Lynch

But if you know that you’ve got to be somewhere in half an hour, there’s no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There’s not always a lot of time for other things.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don’t really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, ‘let’s not do these things anymore – let’s have fun.’

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 find the joy of the ‘doing’ increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

Because you make a world that didn’t exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It’s unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn’t honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that’s inside.