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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.

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I'm Not A Political

David Lynch

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I Quit Smoking In December. I’m Really Depressed About It. I Love Smoking, I Love Fire, I Miss Lighting Cigarettes. I Like The Whole Thing About It, To Me It Turns Into The Artist’s Life, And Now People Like Bloomberg Have Made Animals Out Of Smokers, And They Think That If They Stop Smoking Everyone Will Live Forever.

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Tied To Consciousness Are All Positive Qualities, So That Ocean Within Is An Ocean Of Unbounded Intelligence, Unbounded Creativity, Unbounded Happiness, Unbounded Love, Unbounded Energy, And Unbounded Peace. And When Students Start Expanding Consciousness In Those Positive Qualities, Their Relationships Improve, Their Grades Go Up, Their Happiness Goes Up, The Fighting And Bullying Stops, And Things Get Very, Very, Very Good.

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

Be True To Yourself

When You're Down, When You've Been Kicked Down In The Street And Then Kicked A Few More Times Until You're Bleeding And Your Teeth Are Out, Then You Only Have Up To Go. You Get Reborn Again, And Expectations Aren't So Great Because They've Taken You Away. It's Beautiful To Be Down There. It's So Beautiful!

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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.

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

When You Do Something That Works You Have A Happiness, But I Don't Know If It's A Feeling Of Power. Power Is A Frightening Thing And That's Not What I'm Interested In. I Want To Do Certain Things And Make Them Right In My Mind And That's It.

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.

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.

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.

A Lot Of Painters Listen To Music, I Think, While They Paint. But I Hate To Do That. It's A Horror. I Can't Really Listen To The Music. I'm Not Really Concentrating On It, And I'm Not Really Concentrating On The Painting.

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.

I Didn't Really Grow Up Listening To Blues, Because I Grew Up In The Northwest. It Wasn't Really The Center For Blues.

A Film Is Its Own Thing And In An Ideal World I Think A Film Should Be Discovered Knowing Nothing And Nothing Should Be Added To It And Nothing Should Be Subtracted From It.

Knowing Nothing

I Learned That Just Beneath The Surface There's Another World, And Still Different Worlds As You Dig Deeper. I Knew It As A Kid, But I Couldn't Find The Proof. It Was Just A Kind Of Feeling. There Is Goodness In Blue Skies And Flowers, But Another Force - A Wild Pain And Decay - Also Accompanies Everything.

In My Case What Happened Is That Within About Two Weeks Of Beginning Meditation, The Anger Already Started To Go Away. My Wife Came To Me And Said, "what's Going On?" And I Said, "what Are You Talking About?" To Which She Replied, "this Anger, Where Did It Go?" I Didn't Even Realize That My Anger Had Been Going Away.

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

Cinema Is A Medium That Can Translate Ideas.

I Have No Problem Getting Financing. I Have A Problem Catching Ideas That I Fall In Love With For The Next Feature.

Falling In Love

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.

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!

A Lot Of Musicians Like To Do The Bass And The Drums With Analog And Get That Tape Distortion That's Really Beautiful. As Far As The Digital World Goes - It's All Going To End Up There Anyway, But When You Hear Vinyl It Does A Different Thing To You. Nowadays, People Do Cds And Then Vinyl So It's Everything Goes; It's A Such A Beautiful World.

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I'm Not Comfortable With Words. I Love Images ,and I Love Sounds, And I Love Feelings. I Like The Idea Of Intuition. I Think A Lot Of Things In Life Are Understood That Way. But You Internalize These Things; They Don't Really Pop Out. Certain Things Are Built Inside - Little Areas Of Understanding. I Feel That I Live In Darkness And Confusion, And I'm Trying, Like We All Are, To Make Some Sort Of Sense Of It.

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.

When You Get An Idea And You Fall In Love With It There's Not A Whole Lot Of Choice. You're Going Down A Street And You Meet This Girl And You Know It Doesn't Have To Make Any Sense. Bingo! You're In Love.

Falling In Love

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

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.

The Worst Thing About This Modern World Is That People Think You Get Killed On Television With Zero Pain And Zero Blood. It Must Enter Into Kids' Heads That It's Not Very Messy To Kill Somebody, And It Doesn't Hurt That Much. That's A Real Sickness To Me. That's A Real Sick Thing.

Stories Have Tangents; They Open Up And Become Different Things. You Can Still Have A Structure, But You Should Leave Room To Dream. If You Stay True To Your Ideas, Filmmaking Becomes An Inside-out, Honest Kind Of Process. And If It's An Honest Thing For You, There's A Chance That People Will Feel That, Even If It's Abstract.

This Is A Donut. It Is Very Sweet, And Very Good. But If You've Never Tasted A Donut, You Wouldn't Really Know How Sweet And How Good A Donut Is... Meditation Is Like That. Transcendental Meditation Gives An Experience Much Sweeter Than The Sweetness Of This Donut.

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.

I Love Seeing People Come Out Of Darkness.

I've Always Loved The Electric Guitar: To Hold It And Work It And Hear What It Does Is Unreal.

It's Better Not To Know So Much About What Things Mean Or How They Might Be Interpreted Or You'll Be Too Afraid To Let Things Keep Happening. Psychology Destroys The Mystery, This Kind Of Magic Quality. It Can Be Reduced To Certain Neuroses Or Certain Things, And Since It Is Now Named And Defined, It's Lost Its Mystery And The Potential For A Vast, Infinite Experience.

If The People In A Relationship Were Able To Get Rid Of This Torment Within And Replace It With Happiness, Love, And A Sense Of Well-being, They Would Never Think To Hurt Another Human Being. They Would Be Filled With An Understanding Of Others And An Appreciation Of Others And Have An Ability To Reconcile Differences Without Any Violence Whatsoever, To Reconcile Differences In A Very Loving Way, A Very Happy Way.

When I Was Little In Spokane, Washington I Drew All The Time... And My Father Would Bring Paper Home... And I Mostly Drew Browning Automatic Water-cooled Sub-machine Guns... That Was My Favorite.

I Know Club Music Has To Be Infectious And It's Got To Make You Move.

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.

When You Get An Idea, So Many Things Come In That One Moment. You Could Write The Sound Of That Idea, Or The Sound Of The Room It's In. You Could Write The Clothes The Character Is Wearing, What They're Saying, How They Move, What They Look Like. Instead Of Making Up, You're Actually Catching An Idea, For A Story, Characters, Place, And Mood - All The Stuff That Comes. When You Put A Sound To Something And It's Wrong, It's So Obvious. When It's Right, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts. That's A Magical Thing That Can Happen In Cinema.

I Was Raised Presbyterian, But I'm Not Really Going To Church. I Think The Experience In Meditation Is Pretty Much Where It's At For Me.

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.

Through The Darkness Of Future Past, The Magician Longs To See, One Chance Out Between Two Worlds, Fire Walk With Me!

Man Is Evolving...but It's Difficult To See His Progress With A Western Perception Of Time. The Hindus Think Of Time In Much Larger Segments. They Watch The Hour Hand Of The Clock While We In The West Are Preoccupied With The Second Hand.

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?

To Me, Jazz Is The Closest Thing To Insanity That There Is In Music.

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.

Every Viewer Is Going To Get A Different Thing. That's The Thing About Painting, Photography, Cinema.

Transcendental Meditation Is A Mental Technique, So You Travel To This Field Through Subtler Levels Of Mind, And Then Subtler Levels Of Intellect, And Then, At The Border Of Intellect, You Transcend And Experience It.

I Find The Joy Of The 'doing' Increases. Creativity Increases. Intuition Increases. The Pleasure Of Life Grows. And Negativity Recedes.

Yes, Philadelphia Is Horrible, But In A Very Interesting Way. There Were Places There That Had Been Allowed To Decay, Where There Was So Much Fear And Crime That Just For A Moment There Was An Opening To Another World. It Was Fear, But It Was So Strong, And So Magical, Like A Magnet, That Your Imagination Was Always Sparking In Philadelphiai Just Have To Think Of Philadelphia Now, And I Get Ideas, I Hear The Wind, And I'm Off Into The Darkness Somewhere.

I Always Say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Is My Biggest Influence. But For Painters, I Like Many, Many Painters, But I Love Francis Bacon The Most, And Edward Hopper.

Desire For An Idea Is Like Bait. When You're Fishing, You Have To Have Patience. You Bait Your Hook, And Then You Wait. The Desire Is The Bait That Pulls Those Fish In-those Ideas.

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.

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.

The More You Meditate The Better Life Gets.

I'm Responsible For What People See And What They Hear.

These Growth Hormones, Where Can I Get A Bunch Of Them? Is There Some Way That, With Electricity, You Could Stimulate Your Own Growth Hormones? Plug Yourself In For Five Minutes, There'd Be A Little Jolt, But You'd Get Used To It. It Wouldn't Be Bad At All; In Fact, You'd Get To Enjoy It, Probably. Then Away You'd Go, And Youth Wouldn't Be Wasted On The Young Anymore. You'd Be 25, With A 95-year-old Mind. Granddad Would Start Breaking Into Liquor Stores And Staying Out Late. Hope We Have It Soon!

Growth Hormones

Ideas Are Like Fish. If You Want To Catch Little Fish, You Can Stay In The Shallow Water. But If You Want To Catch The Big Fish, You’ve Got To Go Deeper. Down Deep, The Fish Are More Powerful And More Pure.they’re Huge And Abstract. And They’re Very Beautiful.

It's Crazy To Close Doors To Any Genres.

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 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.

Negativity Is The Enemy Of Creativity. For Instance If You're Filled With Depression, You Can Hardly Even Get Out Of Bed, Let Alone Feel Like Creating Something. If You Are Filled With Bitter, Selfish Anger, This Occupies The Mind And Leaves Little Room For Creative Ideas.

Two Half Hitches Around The Horn Will Hold The Devil As Sure As You're Born.

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.

Intuition Is The Key To Everything, In Painting, Filmmaking, Business - Everything.

Joining Together

The Ideas Dictate Everything.

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.

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

Every Single Thing In The World That Was Made By Anyone Started With An Idea. So To Catch One That Is Powerful Enough To Fall In Love With, It Is One Of The Most Beautiful Experiences. It's Like Being Jolted With Electricity And Knowledge At The Same Time.

Falling In Love

Transcendental Meditation Is Not A Religion, It's Not Against Any Religion, It's For Human Beings, No Matter What Color, What Religion, What Walk Of Life. If You're A Human Being, It Will Work For You. And You Will Be Very Glad You Found This Technique And Took Advantage Of It.

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