Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.
David LynchLet'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 LynchYou 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 LynchTo 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 LynchSome things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
David LynchThe side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.
David Lynch