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My Childhood Was Elegant Homes, Tree Lined Streets, The Milkman, Building Backyard Forts, Droning Airplanes, Blue Skies, Picket Fences, Green Grass, Cherry Trees. Middle America As It’s Supposed To Be. But On The Cherry Tree There’s This Pitch Oozing Out – Some Black, Some Yellow – And Millions Of Red Ants Crawling All Over It. I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

-David Lynch

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My Childhood Was Elegant

David Lynch

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My Childhood Was Elegant Homes, Tree Lined Streets, The Milkman, Building Backyard Forts, Droning Airplanes, Blue Skies, Picket Fences, Green Grass, Cherry Trees. Middle America As It’s Supposed To Be. But On The Cherry Tree There’s This Pitch Oozing Out – Some Black, Some Yellow – And Millions Of Red Ants Crawling All Over It. I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

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When We Transcend We Are Diving Into A Field Of Unbounded Creativity. This Is Real Creativity And When We Experience That And Grow In That, We Can More Easily Find Solutions To Problems. We Can Get Ideas For Whatever It Is We're Working On. And We Will Get Happier By Transcending Every Day And We Will Find That We're Happier Doing Almost Anything. We'll Get More Energy To Do Our Work.

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.

Many Things Happen That We Don't Know The Significance Of Until A Little Bit Later.

Transcending Gives A Human Being A Chance To Think Before Acting. And Experiencing This Beautiful Treasury Within Gets Rid Of Torment And Replaces It With Happiness, Inner Peace, Creativity Intelligence, Love, Energy. This Fuels A Real Good Life And Fuels An Appreciation For All Human Beings. It's So Powerful And It's A Blessing For Humanity.

I Don't Know Why People Expect Art To Make Sense. They Accept The Fact That Life Doesn't Make Sense.

I Always Loved Smokestack Industry, And I Love Towns Or Cities That Have Grown Up Around Factories.

There's Always Fear Of The Unknown Where There's Mystery.

Fear Of The Unknown

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.

But If You Can Expand That Consciousness, Make It Grow, Then When You Read About That Book, You'll Have More Understanding; When You Look Out, More Awareness; When You Wake Up, More Wakefulness; As You Go About Your Day, More Inner Happiness.

I've Seen So Many Cases Where Lives Have Been Transformed For The Good And Heard So Many Stories About This. The Technique Of Transcendental Meditation Really Works For The Human Being.

It's A Simple Thing He [frank Daniel] Taught Me. If You Want To Make A Feature Film, You Get Ideas For 70 Scenes. Put Them On 3-by-5 Cards. As Soon As You Have 70, You Have A Feature Film.

It's So Freeing, It's Beautiful In A Way, To Have A Great Failure, There's Nowhere To Go But Up.

The Technology Can Change, But Storytelling Remains The Same. It's Just A Digital World Now Instead Of An Analog World, But Now The Storytelling's The Same. You Got Different Tools. That's All.

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.

The Side Effect Of Expanding Consciousness Is That Negativity Starts To Evaporate; It Goes Away Like Darkness When You Turn On A Light.

Black Has Depth.. You Can Go Into It.. And You Start Seeing What You're Afraid Of. You Start Seeing What You Love, And It Becomes Like A Dream.

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

I Like Cappuccino, Actually. But Even A Bad Cup Of Coffee Is Better Than No Coffee At All.

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. Feeling Correct Is A Feeling I Think Everyone Knows.

I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

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.

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

Francis Bacon Is One Of My Giant Inspirations. I Just Love Him To Pieces.

I've Loved Music Always, And My Music Fire Was Lit By Elvis Presley, Really, And All That Was Happening Back Then.

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

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

I Don't Think It Was Pain That Made [vincent Van Gogh] Great - I Think His Painting Brought Him Whatever Happiness He Had.

Don't Make A Film If It Can't Be The Film You Want To Make. It's A Joke, And A Sick Joke, And It'll Kill You.

I Love Christmas Tree Bulbs, And I Started Putting Them In My Paintings. You've Got To Plug This Painting In, And It's Got A Rig In The Back, So That Each One Can Be Replaced If It Burns Out.

True Happiness Is Not Out There. True Happiness Lies Within.

Transcendental Meditation

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

When The Going Gets Tough, Everyone Leaves.

Going Gets Tough

As A Teenager, I Was Really Trying To Have Fun 24 Hours A Day. I Didn't Start Thinking Until I Was 20 Or 21. I Was Doing Regular Goof-ball Stuff.

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.

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.

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!

In The World There's A Thing Called Collective Consciousness. All Of Us Billions Of Human Beings Together Create That Collective Consciousness. With All The Problems In Our World, You Can See That The Collective Consciousness Is Not So High.

An Artist Makes A Painting, And Nobody Bugs Him Or Her About It. It's Just You And Your Painting. To Me, That's The Way It Should Be With Film As Well.

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

Falling In Love

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

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.

Surface Cures Are Not Going To Get Rid Of The Torment That's Inside.

Being In Darkness And Confusion Is Interesting To Me.

Mankind Was Not Meant To Suffer -- Bliss Is Our Nature. The Individual Is Cosmic. Let's Rock.

I Truly Believe There Is A Field Of Peace Within And That It Can Be Enlivened And Brought To The Surface To Be Enjoyed By All.

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.

Unfortunately, My Ideas Are Not What You'd Call Commercial, And Money Really Drives The Boat These Days. So I Don't Know What My Future Is. I Don't Have A Clue What I'm Going To Be Able To Do In The World Of Cinema.

We All Have At Least Two Sides. The World We Live In Is A World Of Opposites. And The Trick Is To Reconcile Those Opposing Things. I've Always Liked Both Sides. In Order To Appreciate One You Have To Know The Other. The More Darkness You Can Gather Up, The More Light You Can See Too.

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.

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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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 Bob Dylan. Who Doesn't? He Tapped Into Some Kind Of Vein And It Keeps On Keeping On. There's Nobody Like Him. He's Unique, And Just... Way Out Cool.

I Look At The World And I See Absurdity All Around Me. People Do Strange Things Constantly, To The Point That, For The Most Part, We Manage Not To See It. That's Why I Love Coffee Shops And Public Places - I Mean, They're All Out There.

I Think True Love Is Not Only True Personal Love But Totality Of Love, Universal Love - To Be In Love With Everything Manifest And Everything Unmanifest.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm For Life

I Hate Slick And Pretty Things. I Prefer Mistakes And Accidents. Which Is Why I Like Things Like Cuts And Bruises - They're Like Little Flowers. I've Always Said That If You Have A Name For Something, Like 'cut' Or 'bruise,' People Will Automatically Be Disturbed By It. But When You See The Same Thing In Nature, And You Don't Know What It Is, It Can Be Very Beautiful.

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.

Everybody's Got Creativity. You Just Get More Of It [when You Meditate].

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.

The Interesting Thing That Happens For Many People When They First Start Meditating Is That They'll Be Doing It For A Few Months, And They Will Begin To Change, But The Experience Is So Subtle That They're Not Even Aware Of It.

Let's Get Rid Of The Suffering And Bring Real Peace, Which Is Not Just The Absence Of War, But The Absence Of All Negativity.

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

I'm Lost In A Transition. The Old Is Dead, And I Don't Know What The New Is. The Only Way To Find The New Is To Start Different Things And See If There's Something That Can Come Out Of Experimentation. It's Somewhat Unsettling, But It's A Hopeful Thing In A Way. I've Been Here Before, Lots Of Times.

I Just Hope That I Get A Chance To Keep Making Pictures In The Atmosphere Of Freedom To Make Mistakes, And To Find Those Magical Things. Then I Don't Care What Else Happens.

I'm Not Any Different Than Anybody Else. But I Do See A World, For Me, That's Getting Better And Better, Not Worse And Worse. And I Believe That World Peace Is Coming Quicker Than We Think. And I Believe That People Are Not Only Yearning For It But Will See A Way To Get It And Help That Way To Come Sooner. And It's Going To Be Beautiful.

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.

I'm Convinced We All Are Voyeurs. It's Part Of The Detective Thing. We Want To Know Secrets And We Want To Know What Goes On Behind Those Windows. And Not In A Way That We Would Use To Hurt Anyone. There's An Entertainment Value To It, But At The Same Time We Want To Know: What Do Humans Do? Do They Do The Same Things As I Do? It's A Gaining Of Some Sort Of Knowledge, I Think.

I Don't Think Anybody Really Loves The Sound Of Their Own Voice, But The Tweakability Is Huge.

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

My Movies Are Film-paintings - Moving Portraits Captured On Celluloid. I'll Layer That With Sound To Create A Unique Mood -- Like If The Mona Lisa Opened Her Mouth, And There Would Be A Wind, And She'd Turn Back And Smile. It Would Be Strange And Beautiful.

Script Is Not Finished Until It's Finished. There's Many Times, Partway Through A Film, When An Idea Comes, And I Say, "how Beautiful This Is. This Thing Was Not Complete And Look What's Happened, Look What's Come Along." And It Just Came Along At What Might Be Called A Strange Time Rather Than A Normal Time.

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.

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

It Makes Me Uncomfortable To Talk About Meanings And Things. It's Better Not To Know So Much About What Things Mean. Because The Meaning, It's A Very Personal Thing, And The Meaning For Me Is Different Than The Meaning For Somebody Else.

You Get All The Puzzle Parts Together Enough To Say The Puzzle Is Complete. It's A Script. In The Process Of Realizing That, New Ideas Can Come, One Way Or Another. Through A Happy Accident, They Just Come To You.

I Just Love Musicians. They're Not All Super-happy All The Time, But When They're Playing They're Happy, And It's Such A Beautiful Thing.

The Feature Film Has Changed A Lot. Art Houses Are Gone And People Show A Certain Type Of Cinema In The Big Theaters Now That, You Know, It's Not Quite Really Good For Me, And If I Made A Feature Film, I Was Think I'd Play In La And New York For A Week, And Then Go Right To Television.

When You Practice Transcendental Meditation You Are Given A Key To The Deepest Level Of Life.

I Like Things To Be Orderly.

The Only Thing That Disturbs Me Is That Many Psychopaths Say They Had A Very Happy Childhood.

Well, I've Been Blessed With Good Hair, Or At Least Some People Think It Is. It Is The Way It Is, Sort Of Does What It Wants To. So, Yeah, I Guess It Is [a Metaphor For Your Views On Art And Life].

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Achievement Is Its Own Reward

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.

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.

I Don't Really Follow Television So Much, But In The Old Days There Was A Certain Way Tv Was, And It Wasn't Really Like Cinema. I Don't Know How Many Ways It Was Different Or The Same, But It Was Not Quite Like Cinema. Now, Cinema Can Happen On Television.

I Like Things That Go Into Hidden, Mysterious Places, Places I Want To Explore That Are Very Disturbing. In That Disturbing Thing, There Is Sometimes Tremendous Poetry And Truth.

I Believe In Creative Control. No Matter What Anyone Makes, They Should Have Control Over It.

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.

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.

The Artist Does Not Have To Suffer To Show Suffering.

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.

I Like Making Films Because I Like To Go Into Another World. I Like To Get Lost Into Another World.

As Collective Consciousness Goes Higher And Higher, All The Differences In The World Will Be Appreciated More And More. A Definition Of Peace Is Unity In The Midst Of Diversity. Or You Could Say Happiness, Love, And Peace In The Midst Of All Diversity. All The Differences Would Be Appreciated Fully In The Light Of This Peace.

Nowadays, People Shoot Digitally And It's All In Color, But You Press A Button And It All Goes To Black And White. But It's Not Lit For Black And White. So, It's A Tricky Thing. If You're Going Do Black And White, You Better Remember To Separate Things With Light, Because Color Ain't Gonna Be There.

Black And White

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.

I Think That Ideas Exist Outside Of Ourselves. I Think Somewhere, We're All Connected Off In Some Very Abstract Land. But Somewhere Between There And Here Ideas Exist.

I Have Been 'diving Within' Through The Transcendental Meditation Technique For Over 30 Years. It Has Changed My Life, My World. I Am Not Alone. Millions Of Other People Of All Ages, Religions, And Walks Of Life Practice The Technique And Enjoy Incredible Benefits.

I Always Say That Intuition Is The Number One Tool For An Artist.

I'm Not Really Into Vinyl. There's Something About That Raw, Birth Of Rock And Roll Feel That Makes Me Crazy.

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.

I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

Stories Always Have Held Conflicts And Contrasts, Highs And Lows, Life And Death Situations. And There Can Be Much Suffering In Stories, But Now We Say The Artist Doesn’t Have To Suffer To Show Suffering. You Just Have To Understand The Human Condition, Understand The Suffering.

Being In Darkness And Confusion Is Interesting To Me. But Behind It You Can Rise Out Of That And See Things The Way The Really Are.

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.

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

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.

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.

Anger, Stress, Tension, Depression, Sorrow, Hate, Fear - These Things Start To Retreat. And For A Filmmaker, Having This Negativity Lift Away Is Money In The Bank. When You're Suffering You Can't Create.

There Is An Ocean Of Creativity Within Every Human Being.

The More Unknowable The Mystery, The More Beautiful It Is.

Lately I Feel Films Are More And More Like Music. Music Deals With Abstractions And, Like Film, It Involves Time. It Has Many Different Movements, It Has Much Contrast. And Through Music You Learn That, In Order To Get A Particular Beautiful Feeling, You Have To Have Started Far Back, Arranging Certain Things In A Certain Way. You Can't Just Cut To It.

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

I Don't Like The Word Ironic. I Like The Word Absurdity, And I Don't Really Understand The Word 'irony' Too Much. The Irony Comes When You Try To Verbalize The Absurd. When Irony Happens Without Words, It's Much More Exalted.

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.

I Love Two-lane Highways. They Say Something About The Way Things Used To Be, And About Areas That Don't Have A Lot Of People. On Those Two-lanes At Night You Get The Sense Of Moving Into The Unknown, And That's As Thrilling A Sense As Human Beings Can Have.

Every Single Person Has Within An Ocean Of Pure Vibrant Consciousness. Every Single Human Being Can Experience That - Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Creativity, Infinite Happiness, Infinite Energy, Infinite Dynamic Peace.

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.

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

What Do You Fear, Most Of All? The Possibility That Love May Not Be Enough.

Negativity Is The Enemy Of Creativity.

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

I Like To Feel Like You Can Bite My Paintings. Not To Eat Them, To Hurt Them. I Like To Feel Like I'm Painting With My Teeth.

I Love Child Things Because There's So Much Mystery When You're A Child.

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

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.

I Like The Saying: "the World Is As You Are." And I Think Films Are As You Are. That's Why, Although The Frames Of A Film Are Always The Same - The Same Number, In The Same Sequence, With The Same Sounds - Every Screening Is Different. The Difference Is Sometimes Subtle But It's There. It Depends On The Audience. There Is A Circle That Goes From The Audience To The Film And Back. Each Person Is Looking And Thinking And Feeling And Coming Up With His Or Her Own Sense Of Things. And It's Probably Different From What I Fell In Love With.

I Love Super Crispy, Almost Burned, Snapping-crispy Bacon.

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.

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.

Building A Set Is Like Building A Place, But It's A Temporary Place, Because Sets Usually Get Torn Down. Kind Of Unfortunate.

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.

I Love The Quality, Feel And History Of Film. I Love The Pictures Of The Giant Cameras And The Way It Was.

Sometimes I Get An Idea For Cinema. And When You Get An Idea That You Fall In Love With, This Is A Glorious Day.

Falling In Love

You Need Contrast And Conflict In Order To Tell A Story. Stories Need To Have Dark And Light, Turmoil, All Those Things. But That Does Not Mean The Filmmaker Has To Suffer In Order To Show The Suffering. Stories Should Have The Suffering, Not The People.

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

Life Is Very, Very Complicated, And So Films Should Be Allowed To Be, Too.

When You Have Something That Brings A Real Emotion, That's The Power Of Cinema.

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.

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.

We Think We Understand The Rules When We Become Adults But What We Really Experience Is A Narrowing Of The Imagination.

A Lot Of Music Doesn't Do One Thing Or Another. It Just Doesn't Do Anything. Then There Are Those Pieces Of Music That Thrill Your Soul. It's Such A Wide Range, And It's Really Interesting That We All Love Different Things.

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.

Being In Darkness And Confusion Is Interesting To Me. But Behind It You Can Rise Out Of That And See Things The Way The Really Are. That There Is Some Sort Of Truth To The Whole Thing, If You Could Just Get To That Point Where You Could See It, And Live It, And Feel It. I Think It Is A Long, Long, Way Off. In The Meantime There’s Suffering And Darkness And Confusion And Absurdities, And It’s People Kind Of Going In Circles. It’s Fantastic. It’s Like A Strange Carnival: It’s A Lot Of Fun, But It’s A Lot Of Pain.

The Ocean Of Solutions Is Within, Enliven That. It's A World Of Clues, A World Of Mystery But The Mystery Can Get Solved, You Can Find A Lot Of Answers For These Things Within.

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 Have Smoked Marijuana, But I No Longer Do. I Went To Art School In The 1960s So You Can Imagine What Was Going On. Yet My Friends Were The Ones Who Said, "no, No, No, David, Don't Take Those Drugs." I Was Pretty Lucky.

The Great Coming To Age Of Cable Is Really A Beautiful Thing. No Commercials. It's Like A Small Theater. It's A Cinema On A Tv Screen.

Beautiful Things

Tenderness Can Be Just As Abstract As Insanity.

I Have A Profound Admiration For Fellini. I Met Him Lately And He's Just Fantastic. I Feel Very Close To Him Even Though He's Very Italian. But His Films Could Have Been Made In Every Country. When I Say, I Feel Close To Him, Then Also Because We're Both Born On January 20th.

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.

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 Like Darkness And Confusion And Absurdity, But I Like To Know That There Could Be A Little Door That You Could Go Out Into A Safe Life Area Of Happiness.

All We Really Need Is This Technique Of Transcendental Meditation, Which Allows Any Human Being To Easily And Effortlessly Transcend. When You Get This Technique Of Transcendental Meditation, Stay Regular In Your Meditation Twice A Day And You Will Begin To Rapidly Unfold Your Full Potential As A Human Being And See Life Get Better And Better And Better.

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

I'm Obsessed With Textures. We're Surrounded By So Much Vinyl That I Find Myself Constantly In Pursuit Of Other Textures. One Time I Removed All The Hair From A Mouse With Nair-hair Just To See What It Looked Like. And It Looked Beautiful.

In A Town Like Twin Peaks Noone Is Innocent

Stories Hold Conflict And Contrast, Highs And Lows, Life And Death, And The Human Struggle And All Kinds Of Things.

The Greatest Thing My Father Left Me Was A Love For Cutting Wood - My Love For Sawing, Especially Pine Wood.

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.

In My Mind It's So Much Fun To Have Something That Has Clues And Is Mysterious - Something That Is Understood Intuitively Rather Than Just Being Spoon-fed To You. That's The Beauty Of Cinema, And It's Hardly Ever Even Tried. These Days, Most Films Are Pretty Easily Understood, And So People's Minds Stop Working.

Everybody's Got Creativity. Dive Within To The Ocean Of Infinite Creativity.

Most Of Hollywood Is About Making Money - And I Love Money, But I Don't Make The Films Thinking About Money.

I Think Part Of The Reason Ideas Haven't Come In Is That The World Of Cinema Is Changing So Drastically, And In A Weird Way, Feature Films I Think Have Become Cheap. Everything Is Kind Of Throwaway. It's Experienced And Then Forgotten.

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?

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

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.

Film Can't Just Be A Long Line Of Bliss. There's Something We All Like About The Human Struggle.

There's A Safety In Thinking In A Diner. You Can Have Your Coffee Or Your Milkshake, And You Can Go Off Into Strange Dark Areas, And Always Come Back To The Safety Of The Diner.

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.

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.

Films Are 50 Percent Visual And 50 Percent Sound. Sometimes Sound Even Overplays The Visual.

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

Ideas Are Floating Like Fish. Desire For An Idea Is Like A Bait On A Hook. If You Desire An Idea, It Pulls And It Makes A Kind Of A Bait. Ideas Will Come Swimming Up. And You Don't Know Them Until They Enter The Conscious Mind. And Then Bingo! There It Is! You Know It Instantly. And Then More Come In. If You Go Fishing For Ideas, A Lot Of Ideas Will Just Pop In. And One Of Them Will Make You Fall In Love.

Falling In Love

My Childhood Was Elegant Homes, Tree Lined Streets, The Milkman, Building Backyard Forts, Droning Airplanes, Blue Skies, Picket Fences, Green Grass, Cherry Trees. Middle America As It’s Supposed To Be. But On The Cherry Tree There’s This Pitch Oozing Out – Some Black, Some Yellow – And Millions Of Red Ants Crawling All Over It. I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

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?

Mystery Is The Number One Conjurer Of Ideas.

I Love Industry. Pipes. I Love Fluid And Smoke. I Love Man-made Things. I Like To See People Hard At Work, And I Like To See Sludge And Man-made Waste.

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.

So Much Of What Happened To Me Is Good Fortune. But I Would Say: Try To Get A Job That Gives You Some Time; Get Your Sleep And A Little Bit Of Food; And Work As Much As You Can. There's So Much Enjoyment In Doing What You Love. Maybe This Will Open Doors, And You'll Find A Way To Do What You Love.

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

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.

Domestic Violence And Violence Against Women In General Seems To Be A Big Problem Everywhere In The World. It Seems To Me This Problem Comes From Stress, Pent Up Anger, Frustration, And All Kinds Of Negativity Within Human Beings.

Death In My Mind Isn't A Finality. There's A Continuum: It's Like At Night, You Go To Sleep And In The Daytime You Wake Up, Or Whenever You Wake Up, And It's A New Day.

You Could Say That Spirituality Is Bliss, And Bliss Is Physical Happiness, Emotional Happiness, Mental Happiness, And Spiritual Happiness. And It's Intense. It's An Intense Happiness. It Brings You Together With Everything.

I Like To Remember Things My Own Way. How I Remembered Them, Not Necessarily The Way They Happened.

The Ideas Dictate Everything.

Meditation Is Not A Selfish Thing. Even Though You're Diving In And Experiencing The Self, You're Not Closing Yourself Off From The World. You're Strengthening Yourself, So That You Can Be More Effective When You Go Back Into The World.

I Supported Myself By Delivering The 'wall Street Journal' And Doing Odd Jobs. I Love Plumbing And Carpentry.

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

Be True To Yourself

Instead Of Instilling Fear, If A Company Offered A Way For Everyone In The Business To Dive Within-to Start Expanding Energy And Intelligence-people Would Work Overtime For Free. They Would Be Far More Creative. And The Company Would Just Leap Forward. This Is The Way It Can Be. It's Not The Way It Is, But It Could Be That Way So Easily.

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