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 LynchI love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.
David LynchTo 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 LynchThe greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
David LynchLife holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.
David Lynch