David Lynch Quotes - Page 7

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

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

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

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

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

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.

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.

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.