David Lynch

“אין אנו יודעים מה מסתתר באפלה.”

“הלא־נודע תמיד מעורר התלהבות.”

“Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.”

“I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.”

“I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.”

“Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.”

“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.”

“I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.”

“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.”

“I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.”

“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.”

“I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.”

“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 love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.”

“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.”

“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.”