David Lynch

“The ideas are the most important thing. The ideas are the things that keep you going.”

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”

“Even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.”

“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”

“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business — everything.”

“You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world.”

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

“It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, because you can be honest.”

“Sound is 50 percent of the movie.”

“I like things that go into hidden worlds.”

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything.”

“Black has depth. It's like a little refuge. You can hide in it.”

“All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them.”

“I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things.”

“The world we live in is a world of opposites. And to reconcile those two opposing things is the trick.”

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

“A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be taken away from it.”