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" 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
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" I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. "
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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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" I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. "
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" Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. "
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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 don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. "
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People
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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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" I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. "
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" Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. "
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Doorway
Way
Sex
" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "
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Beautiful
World
Always
" 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've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. "
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Loved
Work
Hear
" 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 love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. "
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Feel
Love
History
" 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
Want
Time
" If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. "
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You
Honest
Ideas
" 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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Better
Film
Beautiful
" 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. "
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Me
Abstract
Said
" Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on. "
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Magical
Talking
Road
" 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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Time
Thought
Life
" I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. "
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Thomas
Fan
Like
" 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
" 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. "
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Sometimes
Door
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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
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Now
" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "
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Translate
Cinema
Ideas
" 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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" Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. "
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You
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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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Different
You
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" A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. "
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Creativity
Mind
" Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money. "
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Thinking
Love
Making Money