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
lying true-happiness transcendental-meditation
True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.
believe should-have creative
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over 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.
real nice doors
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
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.
beautiful attitude fun
One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'
love-is thinking universal-love
I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.
artist way bugs
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
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.
hurt teeth painting
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
light growing environment
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
father home gun
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite
song couple hate
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.
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.