"There is a plot. What would be the point of just a bunch of things? Theres a story, but the story can hold abstractions. I believe in story. I believe in characters. But I believe in a story that holds abstractions, and a story that can be told based on ideas that come in an unconventional way."
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Aca
"In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point."
David Lynch"The sick reality about our over dependance on language is that trying to live without it is like a blind and deaf man with no arms or legs trying to navigate a dark narrow cave, and the cave is full of tarantulas."
David Lynch"Bullshit, thats how I feel. Total fucking bullshit."
David Lynch"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, youve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. Theyre huge and abstract. And theyre very beautiful."
David Lynch"Luckily, David is able to vent everything through his art ... because otherwise somebody might be dead."
David Lynch"The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where youre going to go ... the mood is what youre looking for, and somehow we always find it."
David Lynch