"Theres so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Dont worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within — help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then were really doing something, were doing something that brings that light of unity."
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
"When youre an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air. You just feel it. Its not like youre sitting down, thinking, "What can I do to really mess things up?" Youre getting ideas, and then the ideas feed into a story, and the story takes shape. And if youre honest about it and youre thinking about characters and what they do, you now see that your ideas are about trouble. Youre feeling more depth, and youre describing something that is going on in some way."
David Lynch"I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school ... For me, back then, school was a crime against young people. It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didnt encourage knowledge or a positive attitude."
David Lynch"When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home ... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite."
David Lynch"Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. Its like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time."
David Lynch"Im not a political person. ... I dont understand politics, I dont understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably theres good on both sides, bad on both sides, and theres a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and its very frustrating watching it and seemingly were not moving forward. Some change, simple, simple really, relatively speaking, and were going forwards somewhere, you know? It could be a beautiful place. Theres many little obstacles and theres many, many people that are just opposed and were not going forward."
David Lynch"All the movies are about strange worlds that you cant go into unless you build them and film them. Thats whats so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."
David Lynch"I should say that when people talk about capitalism its a bit of a joke. Theres no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market, free market discipline. Free markets are for others. Like, the Third World is the Third World because they had free markets rammed down their throat. Meanwhile, the enlightened states, England, the United States, others, resorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do. Thats right up to the present. I mean, the Reagan administration for example was the most protectionist in post-war American history. Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention: computers, the internet, telecommunication, automation, pharmaceutical, you just name it. Run through it, and you find massive ripoffs of the public, meaning, a system in which under one guise or another the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. Thats very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World."
"He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"You cant manage yourself, Root. How do you expect to manage others?"
"Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself."
"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested."