David Lynch Film Quotations

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money...

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

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.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.