David Lynch

“Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.”

“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.”

“I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!”

“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.”

“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”

“Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.”

“Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.”

“I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.”

“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.”

“Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.”

“Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.”

“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.”

“I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.”

“The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.”

“A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.”

“I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.”