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
confusion interesting darkness
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.
play musician strange
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
girl falling-in-love home
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 girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.
fire lit happenings
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
art people facts
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
thinking people sound
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
remember forget screens
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
struggle life-and-death stories
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
childhood psychopath very-happy
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
struggle life-and-death amplify
In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.
our-world light worry
There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.
mother children book
My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.
sick want film
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
attitude ideas work-out
I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.