Quotes from David Lynch

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

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

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.

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.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

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.

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

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

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

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.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

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.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

Achievement is its own reward

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.