David Lynch Quotes


"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."
- David Lynch
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Television, World)

"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."
- David Lynch
(Related: Absurdity)

"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."
- David Lynch
(Related: Actors, Right, Road, Talking)

"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
- David Lynch
(Related: Movies, Sex)

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
- David Lynch
(Related: Coffee)

"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
- David Lynch
(Related: Film, Now)

"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
(Related: Humor, Life, Absurdity, Ignorance, Man, Running)

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."
- David Lynch
(Related: Ideas)

"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top."
- David Lynch
(Related: Heart, World)

"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."
- David Lynch
(Related: Money, Life, End, Right)