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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.

-David Lynch

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Sleep Is Really Important.

David Lynch

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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.

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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.

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Secrets And Mysteries Provide A Beautiful Corridor Where You Can Float Out. The Corridor Expands And Many, Many Wonderful Things Can Happen... I Love The Process Of Going Into Mystery.

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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.

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My Cow Is Not Pretty, But It Is Pretty To Me.

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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There's So Many Problems In Our World, So Much Negativity. Don't Worry About The Darkness - Turn On The Light And The Darkness Automatically Goes. Ramp Up The Light Of Unity Within - Help Do That For Yourself, Help Do That For The World And Then We're Really Doing Something, We're Doing Something That Brings That Light Of Unity.

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.

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

Individual Peace Is The Unit Of World Peace.

I Long For A Kind Of Quiet Where I Can Just Drift And Dream. I Always Say Getting Inspiration Is Like Fishing. If You're Quiet And Sitting There And You Have The Right Bait, You're Going To Catch A Fish Eventually. Ideas Are Sort Of Like That. You Never Know When They're Going To Hit You.

Cigarettes Are Pretty Much My Worst Vice, And I Even Stopped Smoking For 20 Years. I Spend Most Of My Free Time With My Family And Working On Art.

I Don't Like Thomas Edison. I'm A Fan Of Nicolai Tesla.

There Is This Unbounded, Infinite, Eternal, Level, Ocean, Within Every Human Being. Inner Happiness Comes With Consciousness, Bliss, Intelligence Comes With It. Creativity, Love. Human Beings Have A Potential And It Has Names Like Enlightenment Or Fulfilment, Or Liberation. True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within. They Say Beauty Is Only Skin Deep But It's This Stuff Coming From The Inside, Absolute Vibrant Consciousness, Absolute Bliss

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.

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

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.

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.

The Concept Of Absurdity Is Something I'm Attracted To.

We Only Dream Of Images We Already Have Inside Of Us.

The Thing About Meditation Is: You Become More And More You.

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.

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.

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

They Say That Negative Things Like Stress, Anxiety, Tension, Sorrow, And Depression "squeeze The Tube" So Ideas Don't Flow Through It. But If You Get Rid Of That Negativity, Which Goes Away Naturally When You Transcend Every Day, These Ideas Are More Freely Flowing, And You Get Happy In The Doing. You Get Fresh And Inspiring Ideas, And A Bigger Picture Starts To Emerge Of The World And Life. It's Very Good For The Artist, Businessman, Fisherman, And Any Kind Of Person Really.

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

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 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.

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.

We Want To Generate The Electricity Of Peace Through Music, And It’s A Thrill To Know That The Super-creative, Enthusiastic Musicians Of Our World Are With Us To Achieve This Goal.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The Mantra That You're Given In Transcendental Meditation You Keep To Yourself. The Reason Being, True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within.

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.

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.

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.

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

Falling In Love

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

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.

I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

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.

They Say The Full Potential Of The Human Being Is Called Enlightenment, Which Is Infinite Consciousness, Infinite Happiness, Zero Negativity, Zero Dying, Complete Freedom, Total Fulfillment, And Being At One With Everything. You Can Say It's God Realization, Or You Can Say You Sit At The Feet Of The Lord As Master Of All You Survey. You Could Say It's Totality, Total Knowledge, And That You Are That Totality. This Is Every Human Being's Birthright: To One Day Enjoy Supreme Enlightenment, Unity. It's Like The Big Graduation.

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

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.

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.

Transcendental Meditation Is Like A Car, A Vehicle That Allows You To Go Within. It's A Mental Technique. You're Given A Mantra - The Mantra That Maharishi Gives Is Very Specific, And You Start To Dive Into Subtler Levels Of Mind, Subtler Levels Of Intellect. You Transcend The Whole Show, Into Pure Bliss Consciousness. From Your First Meditation, You Say, "whoa!" It's A Unique Experience, But A Familiar Experience.

We're Like Lightbulbs. If Bliss Starts Growing Inside You, It's Like A Light; It Affects The Environment.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 Was Creative Before I Started Meditating, But I Had, Looking Back, A Weakness. I Wasn't Self-assured. I Had A Little Bit Of Melancholy. I Had A Lot Of Anger For My Situations In Life, And I Would Take This Out On My First Wife.

Situations In Life

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

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.

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

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 Just Have To Think Of Philadelphia Now, And I Get Ideas, I Hear The Wind, And I'm Off Into The Darkness Somewhere.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Artist Doesn't Have To Suffer To Show Suffering. Have It On The Screen But Have The People Come Out Of The Theater Into A World Of Peace, Of A Beautiful World. They Don't Have To Suffer In Their Lives.

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.

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.

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.

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 Big Treasury Is An Ocean Of Infinite Creativity. It's A Creativity That Creates Everything That Is A Thing - It's Mighty Powerful Creativity.

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.

Consciousness-based Education, Which I Am Helping To Promote, Is Basically The Same Education That Good Schools Are Giving Today With Transcendental Meditation Added For The Students, Teachers, Staff, And Principal.

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.

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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