David Lynch

“Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.”

“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.”

“If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.”

“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 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.”

“I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.”

“כמה קסום זה להיכנס לתיאטרון ולראות את האורות כבים. אני לא יודע למה. יש שתיקה עמוקה, ואז הווילון מתחיל להיפתח. אולי זה אדום. ואתה נכנס לעולם אחר.”

“העולם של ימינו אולי איננו בדיוק המקום המלהיב שבו נוכל לחלום לחיות.”

“כל הסרטים הם חלומות, אך סרטים מסוימים הם כאלה יותר מאשר אחרים.”

“מה שמעורר אימה איננה המציאות, אלא מה שאנו מדמיינים בנפשנו שהיא מסתירה.”

“אין אנו חייבים להבין כדי לאהוב. מה שאנו חייבים הוא לחלום.”

“העולם הפך לחדר רועש, השקט הוא המקום הקסום בו מתרחש תהליך היצירה.”