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I Love Child Things Because There's So Much Mystery When You're A Child. When You're A Child, Something As Simple As A Tree Doesn't Make Sense. You See It In The Distance And It Looks Small, But As You Go Closer, It Seems To Grow - You Haven't Got A Handle On The Rules When You're A Child. We Think We Understand The Rules When We Become Adults But What We Really Experienced Is A Narrowing Of The Imagination.

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I Love Child Things

David Lynch

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I Love Child Things Because There's So Much Mystery When You're A Child. When You're A Child, Something As Simple As A Tree Doesn't Make Sense. You See It In The Distance And It Looks Small, But As You Go Closer, It Seems To Grow - You Haven't Got A Handle On The Rules When You're A Child. We Think We Understand The Rules When We Become Adults But What We Really Experienced Is A Narrowing Of The Imagination.

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In Today’s World Of Fear And Uncertainty, Every Child Should Have One Class Period A Day To Dive Within Himself And Experience The Field Of Silence - Bliss - The Enormous Reservoir Of Energy And Intelligence That Is Deep Within All Of Us. This Is The Way To Save The Coming Generation.

All My Movies Are About Strange Worlds That You Can't Go Into Unless You Build Them And Film Them. That's What's So Important About Film To Me. I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

The Side Effect Of Expanding Consciousness Is That Negativity Starts To Evaporate; It Goes Away Like Darkness When You Turn On A Light. Many Students Have So Much Torment, Stress, Depression, Sorrow And Hate In Them These Days, But Then They Get This Technique And The Negativity Starts To Go Away. They Start To Feel Good Because The Torment Is Leaving. Their Health Gets Better And They Get Happier, Their Comprehension And Their Ability To Focus Grow, Their Grades Go Up And A Joy For Life Grows; All Of Which Comes From Within.

When You Make Your First Film, It's Really Hard In Some Ways. You're Just Nowhere. But Then You Have Something. If You Have A Success, Then You Might Be Looking To Take A Fall. If You Had A Fall, You Get A Certain Kind Of Euphoria Because You're Not Dead, So You Can Still Do It Again. It's About How You Go Through The Processes. Do You Enjoy That "doing"? Is It Getting Less Fun Or More Fun?

I Love Mysteries. To Fall Into A Mystery And Its Danger ... Everything Becomes So Intense In Those Moments. When Most Mysteries Are Solved, I Feel Tremendously Let Down. So I Want Things To Feel Solved Up To A Point, But There's Got To Be A Certain Percentage Left Over To Keep The Dream Going. It's Like At The End Of Chinatown: The Guy Says, 'forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown.' You Understand It, But You Don't Understand It, And It Keeps That Mystery Alive. That's The Most Beautiful Thing.

During The Course Of A Day, Some Dark Feeling Comes, Maybe Some Sadness Comes, Some Thrill, Some Great Happiness, Some Strange Humor. Cinema Can Embrace All That In One Story, Just As The Story Of Life.

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.

I Have To Make What I See, Whether It's A Painting, A Table, Or A Movie, Or It's Like A Death And What Would Be The Point Of That?

A Lot Of Artists Think They Want Anger. But A Real, Strong, Bitter Anger Occupies The Mind, Leaving No Room For Creativity.

Some Things We Forget. But Many Things We Remember On The Mental Screen, Which Is The Biggest Screen Of All.

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.

Life Is Filled With Abstractions, And The Only Way To Make Heads Or Tails Of It Is Going Through Intuition.

Speaking In Front Of A Large Crowd Is Not Pleasant. Once It Gets Rolling, It's Okay. But Beforehand, It's Murder.

I Wouldn't Know What To Do With [colour]. Colour To Me Is Too Real. It's Limiting. It Doesn't Allow Too Much Of A Dream. The More You Throw Black Into A Colour, The More Dreamy It Gets… Black Has Depth. It's Like A Little Egress; You Can Go Into It, And Because It Keeps On Continuing To Be Dark, The Mind Kicks In, And A Lot Of Things That Are Going On In There Become Manifest. And You Start Seeing What You're Afraid Of. You Start Seeing What You Love, And It Becomes Like A Dream.

Be True To Yourself. Don't Take No For An Answer. And Start Your Transcendental Meditation.

Be True To Yourself

Life Holds Many, Many, Many Mysteries, Abstract Things We All Think About. In A Film When Things Get Abstract, Some People Don't Appreciate That And They Want To Leave The Theater. Others Love To Dream, Get Lost, Try To Figure Things Out. I'm One Of Those People. I Like A Film, A Story That Holds Concrete Things But Also Abstractions. So When Ideas Come Along That Have Those Things, I'm Falling In Love And Going To Work.

Falling In Love

Freedom. It's Like No Constraints, An Opening, And Then Barriers Going Away And Lifting And Breaking And Experimentation And...it's Like Attempting For Something.

Making A Film Is A Beautiful Mystery. You Go Deep Into The Wood, And You Don't Want To Come Out Of That Wood.

Because You Make A World That Didn't Exist Before, And You Can Go Into That World Deeper And Deeper. It's Unbounded Out There. One Film Takes You Into One Area, Another Film Takes You Into Another Area. There Could Be Trillions, Zillions Of Worlds That Exist In The Big Space.

It's Crazy To Close Doors To Any Genres.

There Is An Ocean Of Pure Vibrant Consciousness Inside Each One Of Us.

Every Teacher Of Transcendental Meditation Is A Hero.

Negativity Is The Enemy Of Creativity.

The Day You Catch An Idea You Fall In Love With, Even A Small One, Is A Beautiful Day.

Falling In Love

One Change Of Attitude Would Change Everything. If Everyone Realized That It Could Be A Beautiful World And Said, 'let's Not Do These Things Anymore - Let's Have Fun.'

I've Said Many, Many, Many Unkind Things About Philadelphia, And I Meant Every One.

Someday, Hopefully Very Soon, 'diving Within' As A Preparation For Learning And As A Tool For Developing The Creative Potential Of The Mind Will Be A Standard Part Of Every School’s Curriculum.

If You Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut And Do Your Work, That's All You Can Control. You Can't Control Any Of What's Out There, Outside Yourself.

I Started Transcendental Meditation In 1973 And Have Not Missed A Single Meditation Ever Since. Twice A Day, Every Day. It Has Given Me Effortless Access To Unlimited Reserves Of Energy, Creativity And Happiness Deep Within.

Sleep Is Really Important. You Need To Rest The Physiology To Be Able To Work Weel And Meditate Well. When I Don't Get Enough Sleep, My Meditations Are Duller. You May Even Dip Into Sleep At The Beginning Of Your Meditation, Because You're Settling Down. But If You're Well Rested, You'll Have A Clearer Deeper Experience.

I Let The Actors Work Out Their Ideas Before Shooting, Then Tell Them What Attitudes I Want. If A Scene Isn't Honest, It Stands Out Like A Sore Thumb.

Sex Is A Doorway To Something So Powerful And Mystical, But Movies Usually Depict It In A Completely Flat Way. Being Explicit Doesn't Tap Into The Mystical Aspect Of It Either In Fact, That Usually Kills It Because People Don't Want To See Sex So Much As They Want To Experience The Emotions That Go Along With It. These Things Are Hard To Convey In Film Because Sex Is Such A Mystery.

Inside, We Are Ageless And When We Talk To Ourselves, It’s The Same Age Of The Person We Were Talking To When We Were Little. It’s The Body That Is Changing Around That Ageless Center.

The Nervous System Functions In A Fourth, Unique Way, As Different As Dreaming Is From Sleeping As Sleeping Is From Waking. When You Transcend, It's The Only Experience That Lights The Full Brain On An Eeg Machine. It's The Only Experience That Utilizes The Full Brain.

If A Scene Isn't Honest, It Stands Out Like A Sore Thumb.

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.

Forget Being The Best Of Anything. That's The Fruit Of The Action, And You Do The Work -they Say- For The Doing, Not The Fruit. You Can Never Really Know How It's Gonna Turn Out In The World But You Know If You Enjoy Doing It. And Ideas Start Flowing And You Start Getting, You Know, Excited About Stuff. Then You're Having A Great Time In The Doing And That's What It's All About. If You Don't Enjoy The Doing, Then Do Something Else.

This Whole World Is Wild At Heart And Weird On Top.

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.

When You Sleep, You Don`t Control Your Dream. I Like To Dive Into A Dream World That I've Made, A World I Chose And That I Have Complete Control Over.

My Mother Refused To Give Me Coloring Books As A Child. She Probably Saved Me, Because When You Think About It, What A Coloring Book Does Is Completely Kill Creativity.

Directors Who Have Inspired Me Include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola And Ernst Lubitsch. In Art School, I Studied Painters Like Edward Hopper, Who Used Urban Motifs, Franz Kafka Is My Favorite Novelist. My Approach To Film Stems From My Art Background, As I Go Beyond The Story To The Sub-conscious Mood Created By Sound And Images.

I Would Rather Not Make A Film Than Make One Where I Don't Have Final Cut.

The Human Being Is Like A Light Bulb. If A Human Being Is Super Stressed, Depressed And Filled With Negativity, This Is What That Human Being Radiates Out Into The World.

Eraserhead Is My Most Spiritual Movie. No One Understands When I Say That, But It Is.

Music Has Fed Me A Lot Of Ideas... The Film Blue Velvet Came Out Of Bobby Vinton's Version Of The Song Blue Velvet.

In Film, Life-and-death Struggles Make You Sit Up, Lean Forward A Little Bit. They Amplify Things Happening, In Smaller Ways, In All Of Us. These Things Show Up In Relationships. They Show Up In Struggles And Bring Them To A Critical Point.

I'm Not A Political Person. I Don't Understand Politics, I Don't Understand The Concept Of Two Sides And I Think That Probably There's Good On Both Sides, Bad On Both Sides, And There's A Middle Ground, But It Never Seems To Come To The Middle Ground And It's Very Frustrating Watching It And Seemingly We're Not Moving Forward.

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.

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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