David Lynch Quotes - Page 12

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• 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.

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• Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Boys, Espresso

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• These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would start breaking into liquor stores and staying out late. Hope we have it soon!

  David Lynch

  Years, Growth Hormones, Mind

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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.

  David Lynch

  Space, Sound, Littles

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• I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

  David Lynch

  Attitude, Ideas, Work Out

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

  David Lynch

  Would Be, Tables, Painting

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• I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.

  David Lynch

  Country, Italian, Profound

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• Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

  David Lynch

  Art, Years, Smoking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

  David Lynch

  Cities, Towns, Factories

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• 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

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• I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Joy, Negativity

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• Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

  David Lynch

  Fishing, Ideas, Waiting

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• Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

  David Lynch

  Real, Interesting, Comedy

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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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.

  David Lynch

  Oil, Smell, House

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• I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Wall, Odd

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• In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Life And Death, Amplify

  "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.

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• Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

  David Lynch

  Going Away, Attempting, Opening

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• But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

  David Lynch

  Book, Creativity, Understanding

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin

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• I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

  David Lynch

  Unique, Veins, Bob

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• 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

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• Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

  David Lynch

  Kind, Building, Torn

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview With Christopher Bollen, Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

  David Lynch

  Rolling, Crowds, Murder

  GreenCine interview, November 16, 2005.

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• Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Looks, Bells

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• I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  "David Lynch on why he hates 'It's A Small World'". Interview With Drew Fortune, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Cinema, Mediums

  Interview With Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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