Top 250 David Lynch Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.”

— David Lynch

102. “One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, ‘let’s not do these things anymore – let’s have fun.’”

— David Lynch

103. “I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.”

— David Lynch

104. “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

105. “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 subtracted from it.”

— David Lynch

106. “I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it’s going to be over. It’s not that way; it’s so energetic. That’s where all the energy and creativity is.”

— David Lynch

107. “With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.”

— David Lynch

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

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

— David Lynch

112. “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

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

— David Lynch

114. “The ideas dictate everything.”

— David Lynch

115. “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

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

— David Lynch

117. “I love seeing people come out of darkness.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

119. “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

120. “It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.”

— David Lynch

121. “I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.”

— David Lynch

122. “I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

124. “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

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

— David Lynch

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

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

— David Lynch

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

139. “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

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

— David Lynch

141. “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

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

— David Lynch

143. “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

144. “I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don’t really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.”

— David Lynch

145. “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

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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

149. “Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that’s the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.”

— David Lynch

150. “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