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1946–2025 United States

David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025) was an American film director, writer and actor, known for his surrealist style.

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We all reflect the world we live in. Even if you make a period film, it will reflect your times.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

There are many, many dark things flowing around in this world right now, and most films reflect the world in which we live.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

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

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.

I like the saying "The world is as you are."

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

You fall in love with the first idea, that little tiny piece. And once you've got it, the rest will come in time.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.

A man's attitude goes some ways, the way his life will be.

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Then Dennis called and said, 'I have to play Frank, because I am Frank.' That thrilled me, and scared me.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air.

You have so many tools. And so you can express a feeling and a thought that can't be conveyed any other way. It's a magical medium.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

I'm not always good with words.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

The Making of Dune (1984)

Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.

It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way they really are.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Lynch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.