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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. "
David Lynch
You
Money
Life
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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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" 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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" Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all. "
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" The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. "
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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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" 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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" If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. "
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" Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. "
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" You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere. "
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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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" Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. "
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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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" What I really like is to be at home, working. "
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" I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. "
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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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" 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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