American - Director | January 20, 1946 -
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
David Lynch
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I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
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Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
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I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
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You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
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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.
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