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David Lynch Biography

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as "the most important director of this era," while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking." He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. His films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001) are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades. Following the success of his 1990–91 television series Twin Peaks, film critic Pauline Kael labeled him "the first popular Surrealist."

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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.

Feelings, Intellectual, Painting, Say, Sharpen, Thinking

In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

Create, Our World, Problem, Thing, Together, World

If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment and that collective consciousness. The more people who are diving within and transcending and are getting that happiness and positivity, the better the world will be.

Consciousness, Happiness, People, Positivity, World

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

Doe, Guitar, Hold, Unreal, Work, Working It

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Art, Creativity, Expect, People, Sense

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

Creativity, Experimentation, Hopeful, Somewhat, Transition

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

Creativity, Dynamic, Fun, Ocean, Pure, Single

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

Beautiful, Catch, Day, Falling In Love, Idea, Ideas

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

Dream, Envelope, Hope, Important, People, Surround

When you sleep, you don`t control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

Complete, Control, Dream, Sleep, World

Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.

Come, Dream, Falling, Falling In Love, Holds, Thinking

There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss

Beings, Creativity, Eternal, Lying, Ocean, Vibrant

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

Consciousness, Ocean, Pure, Vibrant

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

Cities, Factories, Smokestack, Towns

They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.

Enjoy, Feet, Negativity, Realization, Survey, Zero

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

Born, Different, Genres, Important, Lots

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

Conflict, Dark, Inspirational, Mean, People, Suffering

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

Levels, Meditation, Mind, Technique, Transcend, Transcendental

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.

Become, Cinema, Drastically, Ideas, Thinking

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

Affects, Bliss, Environment, Growing, Light

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