David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynchis an American director, screenwriter, visual artist, musician, actor, and author. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique cinematic style. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements contained within his films have been known to "disturb, offend or mystify" audiences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 January 1946
CityMissoula, MT
CountryUnited States of America
strong thinking upset
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
detectives ends trails
You'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.
spiritual emotional together
You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.
short-love priorities film
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
father cutting woods
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
interesting soul thrill
A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.
thinking ideas world
I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.
unique bob way
I 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.
thinking people trying
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.
philadelphia pennsylvania influence
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.
father kids house
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
dream sleep unique
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.
struggle life-and-death stories
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
remember forget screens
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.