David Lynch Quotes (27 Quotes)


    It's so possible, ... You have education that brings a student to his full potential, and it's so possible to set up peacemaking groups to bring peace to Earth. It's so possible.

    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.

    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.

    My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

    The first goal is to get 10,000 students practicing Transcendental Meditation in the U.S. to create a wave of peace in America that will be a catalyst for peace in the world. It will be a peace-meditating group like a factory that pumps peace around the world.


    It's the superhighway to the gold. This causes negativity to go like sunlight causes darkness to go.

    I would love for the government to step up to the plate and assist us. That's what I'd like.

    The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

    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.

    Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

    Tell them there's an ocean of bliss ... It's like diving within makes you experience subtler fields of consciousness, intellect and even love. And it makes you feel so good

    I got the idea to start the foundation from my own benefits, ... My foundation raises money to any student who is interested in meditation. Our goal is to send a wave of peace across the world and United States and get the country out of negativity and suffering.

    There's no conflict, ... The first thing is the Kingdom of Heaven. And when you dive within, and you become part of the light, you're reaching that place. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing.

    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!

    Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain.

    It's knowledge in terms of the self and it works wonders in children,

    We're taking our experience with Delphi and working with these materials to make batteries perform better than we've ever seen. Who would have thought

    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.

    What I like so very much about this meditation is that you can take what you've learned and go about your business, ... I can use those classroom techniques anywhere, which is ideal for me as a filmmaker.

    I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

    This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

    People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

    In my mind, there's no connection between the gift Runner received and her position on pharmaceutical issues. Any gift that she received, that was equally distributed it is safe to assume that others also received similar gifts.

    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.

    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.

    The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

    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.


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