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" Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. "
David Lynch
Cinema
Different
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" Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. "
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" 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. "
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" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "
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" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. "
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" Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. "
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" A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. "
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Painting
" 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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World
" Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. "
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" The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. "
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You
True
Ideas
" I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. "
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Church
Experience
Me
" I like things to be orderly. "
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Like
Orderly
Things
" The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. "
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Left
Father
Love
" I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. "
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Cup
Bad
Than
" 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. "
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Money
" There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments. "
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Top
Day
Working
" 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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Experience
Cinema
Sound
" Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. "
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Me
Music
Want
" 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'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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" 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. "
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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 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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" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "
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" 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. "
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" Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. "
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" I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. "
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