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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
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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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" 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. "
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" If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. "
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" 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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" I like things to be orderly. "
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" Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. "
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" 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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" Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. "
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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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" 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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" 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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See
Go
Ideas
" 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
" 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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Music
Think
Money
" 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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Trying
People
Life
" Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. "
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Dive
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Peace
" The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. "
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Concept
Something
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. "
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" 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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" 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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" The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. "
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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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" You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. "
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" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "
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" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "
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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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Oil
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" What I really like is to be at home, working. "
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