487 Quotes by David Lynch

I’m not really into vinyl. There’s something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

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 should be with film as well.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don’t care what else happens.

There’s a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

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 film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There’s really nothing to be afraid of.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood – my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

I don’t like Thomas Edison. I’m a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I’m not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it’s at for me.

People think in Hollywood there’s a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it’s just not that way at all to me.