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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
Temporary
Building
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" Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. "
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" Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. "
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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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" I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. "
David Lynch
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" I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go. "
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Ideas
Remember
Love
" What I really like is to be at home, working. "
David Lynch
Working
Really
Home
" A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. "
David Lynch
Think
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Mind
" 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. "
David Lynch
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" 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
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" To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. "
David Lynch
Me
Abstract
Said
" 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
Music
You
Space
" Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. "
David Lynch
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" I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. "
David Lynch
Cup
Bad
Than
" 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
Business
Good
" The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. "
David Lynch
Concept
Something
Absurdity
" 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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Painting
Way
You
" The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience. "
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Cinema
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" I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time. "
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People
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" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "
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Cow
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" I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom. "
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" 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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" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "
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" 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! "
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Cool
Beautiful
Now
" I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. "
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Burned
Super
Love
" More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. "
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People
Think
Sound
" Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits. "
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" You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere. "
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