Top 250 David Lynch Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If we didn’t want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.”

— David Lynch

102. “I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.”

— David Lynch

103. “Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It’s a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.”

— David Lynch

104. “I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.”

— David Lynch

105. “You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.”

— David Lynch

106. “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

107. “Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.”

— David Lynch

108. “Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.”

— David Lynch

109. “The ideas dictate everything.”

— David Lynch

110. “I’ve seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.”

— David Lynch

111. “Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that’s really what gave me permission to get into it even though I’m not a musician. It’s just an intuitive thing for me.”

— David Lynch

112. “Float with me in the world of ether.”

— David Lynch

113. “I’ve said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.”

— David Lynch

114. “That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.”

— David Lynch

115. “I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.”

— David Lynch

116. “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!”

— David Lynch

117. “If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

118. “Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”

— David Lynch

119. “A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.”

— David Lynch

120. “Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.”

— David Lynch

121. “Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition. Intuition is seeing the solution – seeing it, knowing it. It’s emotion and intellect going together. That’s essential for the filmmaker.”

— David Lynch

122. “Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

— David Lynch

123. “To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words.”

— David Lynch

124. “Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don’t want to come out of that wood.”

— David Lynch

125. “I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.”

— David Lynch

126. “Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate. It’s very important to experience that Self, that pure consciousness. It’s really helped me. I think it would help any filmmaker. So start diving within, enlivening that bliss consciousness. Grow in happiness and intuition. Experience the joy of doing. And you’ll glow in this peaceful way. Your friends will be very, very happy with you. Everyone will want to sit next to you. And people will give you money!”

— David Lynch

127. “Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.”

— David Lynch

128. “It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It’s better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it’s a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.”

— David Lynch

129. “Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it’s okay. But beforehand, it’s murder.”

— David Lynch

130. “Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.”

— David Lynch

131. “When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.”

— David Lynch

132. “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, you’ve got to go deeper.”

— David Lynch

133. “Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.”

— David Lynch

134. “I would rather not make a film than make one where I don’t have final cut.”

— David Lynch

135. “I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.”

— David Lynch

136. “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

137. “I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You’ve got to plug this painting in, and it’s got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.”

— David Lynch

138. “The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.”

— David Lynch

139. “Let’s get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.”

— David Lynch

140. “I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.”

— David Lynch

141. “I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don’t care what else happens.”

— David Lynch

142. “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

143. “Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don’t let anybody fiddle with it.”

— David Lynch

144. “It’s crazy to close doors to any genres.”

— David Lynch

145. “Building a set is like building a place, but it’s a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.”

— David Lynch

146. “If a scene isn’t honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.”

— David Lynch

147. “I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, “No, no, no, David, don’t take those drugs.” I was pretty lucky.”

— David Lynch

148. “Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.”

— David Lynch

149. “The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood – my love for sawing, especially pine wood.”

— David Lynch

150. “Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.”

— David Lynch