David Lynch

Quotes

• “All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”

• “My cow is not pretty, but it's pretty to me.”

• “Ideas 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, you've got to go deeper. / Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.”

• “The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it.”

• “It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It is 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 someone else.”