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" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "
David Lynch
Creativity
Enemy
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" It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. "
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" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "
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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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" 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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" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "
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" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "
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" Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. "
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Humor
You
" 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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" 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. "
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" I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. "
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" 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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" 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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" Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. "
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" As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. "
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" 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. "
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" Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. "
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" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "
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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 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 have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. "
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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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" The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. "
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