David Lynch Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

• Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

  David Lynch

  Rocks, Suffering, Bliss

  "Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

• Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Life And Death, Suffering

• 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. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.

  David Lynch

  Fun, Pain, Creativity

  "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film". Book by Joseph Maddrey, p. 160, 2004.

• A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

  David Lynch

  Suffering, Scene, Filmmaker

  "The Visionary". Interview With Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

• Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

  David Lynch

  Real, War, Negativity

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2011

• The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Suffering, Doe

• The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Artist, People

  "David Lynch’s Guru and His Art". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.onfaith.co.

• Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Stress, Negativity

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