Quotes by David Lynch

“The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or youre dead.”

“The concept of absurdity is something Im attracted to.”

“Death in my mind isnt a finality. Theres a continuum: Its like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and its a new day.”

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

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

“Im not on a sales pitch”

“I dont like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I dont really understand the word irony too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, its much more exalted.”

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

“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.”

“The proof is in the pudding,”

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - theyre like little flowers. Ive 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 dont know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

I dont think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

You can understand conflict, but you donthave to live in it.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I dont really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl youre in love with, but you know shes not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.