69 Quotes by Jennifer Lynch

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don’t just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I have gone insane. I won’t be talking with you for a while.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It’s hard enough to do the dishes when you’re feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I really believe that if you’re going to bring a child into the world, it’s your job to parent that world. Especially if it’s just you; you don’t pawn her off on somebody.

I will not let anyone hurt me, like in the dream. I’ll hurt myself first. I know the places that are the most delicate. I’ll do the hurting from now on, as long as all of this stops!!!!

The first time I saw ‘Sunset Boulevard’ I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it’s so simply put and elegant, yet there’s so much going on.

So I spent my birthday alone. I went out to where I go with BOB. It was light out, and everything seemed like an awful dream, until I saw a piece of rope lying at the back of the base of his favorite tree. I got a chill, but forced it away. I tried to look carefully at the tree, to find something that would explain why he picked this place, this tree. There was nothing. I made sure I was alone before I did what I had planned.