"I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something,..."
- David Lynch
"I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had."
"I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it."
"You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it."
"Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together."
"I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery."
"New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts."
"It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier."
"People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a g..."
"I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now peop..."