David Lynch quotes

Born
January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, U.S.

Occupation
Director.

David Lynch is an American director.

Movies
Blue Velvet (1986)
Dune (1984)
Lucky (2017)
The Elephant Man (1980)

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
– David Lynch

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
– David Lynch

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
– David Lynch

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
– David Lynch

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
– David Lynch

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.
– David Lynch

Film can’t just be a long line of bliss. There’s something we all like about the human struggle.
– David Lynch

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

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

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

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn’t mean just a small happiness. It’s huge. It is profound.
– David Lynch

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
– David Lynch

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

A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
– David Lynch

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

I like things to be orderly.
– David Lynch

The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.
– David Lynch

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

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

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
– David Lynch

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.
– David Lynch

What I really like is to be at home, working.
– David Lynch

I don’t like Thomas Edison. I’m a fan of Nikola Tesla.
– David Lynch

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

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

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

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

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It’s a mental technique.
– David Lynch

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.
– David Lynch

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.
– David Lynch

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
– David Lynch

I’ve said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
– David Lynch

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
– David Lynch

The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
– David Lynch

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.
– David Lynch

I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.
– David Lynch

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it’s not so romantic for the starving artist.
– David Lynch

I didn’t really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn’t really the center for blues.
– David Lynch

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