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" I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. "
David Lynch
Loved
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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
" 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. "
David Lynch
Light
Good
You
" 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
Interesting
Me
Time
" People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me. "
David Lynch
Together
Way
Think
" 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. "
David Lynch
People
Think
Sound
" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "
David Lynch
Beautiful
World
Always
" 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
Director
Worry
Time
" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "
David Lynch
Creativity
Enemy
Negativity
" Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. "
David Lynch
Sometimes
Door
Nice
" 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. "
David Lynch
Experience
Cinema
Sound
" Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those. "
David Lynch
You
People
Happy
" 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
Know
Together
Painting
" 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
Creativity
Mind
" 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. "
David Lynch
Together
Internet
Space
" Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. "
David Lynch
Go
Like
Meditation
" I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. "
David Lynch
Thomas
Fan
Like
" 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
Cool
Beautiful
Now
" 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. "
David Lynch
Time
Thought
Life
" I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them. "
David Lynch
Hate
Music
Love
" Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. "
David Lynch
Film
Struggle
Bliss
" I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten. "
David Lynch
Think
World
Weird
" To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. "
David Lynch
Different
You
Up
" 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
Smell
Oil
House
" Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. "
David Lynch
Love
Cinema
Sometimes
" Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. "
David Lynch
Should
Too
Very
" I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. "
David Lynch
Influence
Say
Philadelphia
" The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. "
David Lynch
You
True Happiness
Yourself
" You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. "
David Lynch
Painting
You
Time
" 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
Down
" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "
David Lynch
Pretty
Cow
Me