Top 250 David Lynch Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

154. “You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It’s a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.”

— David Lynch

155. “I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

158. “A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.”

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

160. “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

161. “Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.”

— David Lynch

162. “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

163. “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

164. “In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss-t he enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.”

— David Lynch

165. “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

166. “Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy.”

— David Lynch

167. “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.”

— David Lynch

168. “During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.”

— David Lynch

169. “I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he’s just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he’s very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we’re both born on January 20th.”

— David Lynch

170. “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

171. “I don’t know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it’s a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it’s like falling in love with a girl. It could be a girl you wouldn’t want to take home to your parents, but you don’t care what anybody else thinks. You’re in love and it’s beautiful and you stay true to those things.”

— David Lynch

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

178. “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

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

— David Lynch

180. “People think anger is an edge, but anger is a weakness that poisons you and the environment around you.”

— David Lynch

181. “I don’t like Thomas Edison. I’m a fan of Nicolai Tesla.”

— David Lynch

182. “Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It’s a mental technique.”

— David Lynch

183. “Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.”

— David Lynch

184. “I’m not really into vinyl. There’s something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.”

— David Lynch

185. “We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.”

— David Lynch

186. “The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.”

— David Lynch

187. “You can understand conflict, but you don’thave to live in it.”

— David Lynch

188. “A film – especially when it’s a personal film – is going to hit somebody or it’s not. There’s nothing you can do about it.”

— David Lynch

189. “More and more people are seeing the films on computers – lousy sound, lousy picture – and they think they’ve seen the film, but they really haven’t.”

— David Lynch

190. “My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don’t, and vice versa.”

— David Lynch

191. “The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they’ll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they’re not even aware of it.”

— David Lynch

192. “I don’t think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.”

— David Lynch

193. “What you’re reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography.”

— David Lynch

194. “To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.”

— David Lynch

195. “In Lynch’s realm, America is like a river that flows ever forward, carrying odds and ends from one decade into the next, where they intermingle and blur the dividing lines we’ve invented to mark time.”

— David Lynch

196. “I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.”

— David Lynch

197. “I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you’re quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you’re going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they’re going to hit you.”

— David Lynch

198. “He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA.”

— David Lynch

199. “I’m not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don’t have time. I just don’t go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.”

— David Lynch

200. “When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there’s not a whole lot of choice. You’re going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn’t have to make any sense. Bingo! You’re in love.”

— David Lynch