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
vices thumbs vice-versa
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
going-away attempting opening
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.
world film lost
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
art school novelists
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.
doors confusion darkness
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
dark balance used
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
children mystery children-love
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.
ideas
The ideas dictate everything.
war real negativity
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
tough going-gets-tough
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
beautiful want woods
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.
mistake atmosphere care
I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.
eye doughnut ifs
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
thinking circles differences
I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same--the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds--every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.