David Lynch Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

  David Lynch

  Song, Blue, Ideas

• All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

  David Lynch

  Important, World, Strange

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

  David Lynch

  Life Is, Film, Complicated

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

  David Lynch

  Sound, Sometimes, Film

• I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.

  David Lynch

  People, Hollywood, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

  David Lynch

  Real, Worry, Directors

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.142, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Ideas, Together

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

• Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Night, Wind

• If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

  David Lynch

  Strong, Thinking, Upset

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.136, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

  David Lynch

  Film, Can Do

• There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

  David Lynch

  Short Love, Priorities, Film

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Artist, Should Have

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

• People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

  David Lynch

  Girl, Falling In Love, Home

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cutting, Order

• I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

  David Lynch

  Cutting, Finals, Film

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.

  David Lynch

  Sex, Powerful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

  David Lynch

  Fun, People, Mind

• I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Circles, Differences

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

• 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.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Way, Bugs

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

• A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Knowing Nothing, World

  "A Rare (and Amazing) 47-Minute Interview with David Lynch". www.movies.com. June 18, 2013.

• It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

  David Lynch

  Simple, Ideas, Cards

• Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Want, Woods

• Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Get Better, Video

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. January 2, 2007.

• I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Kids, Unique

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