Quotes by David Lynch

"I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal."

"Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces."

"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema."

"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."

"Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique."

"Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life."

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."

"I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go."

"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me."

"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."

"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."

"Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas."

"Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life."

"I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon."

"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."

"Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things."

"I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath."

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."

"Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together."

"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."