A biography for David Lynchhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.”
“Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.”
“I like things to be orderly.”
“A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.”
“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.”
“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”
“I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.”
“Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.”
“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.”
“What I really like is to be at home, working.”
“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.”
“You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.”
“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.”
“Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.”