Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.
David LynchAbsurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David LynchA 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 LynchIdeas 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, youโve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.Theyโre huge and abstract. And theyโre very beautiful.
David LynchYou'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 LynchI wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it getsโฆ Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
David Lynch