Quotes from David Lynch

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

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.

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

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.

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

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 think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

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

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

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

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.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.