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Quotes from Catching the Big Fish — David Lynch

1946–2025 United States

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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)

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)

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)

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)

It's not just words or music — it's a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn't exist before. It's telling stories. It's devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

Catching the Big Fish (2006)

I read a sentence. And I closed the Bible, because that was it. And then I saw the thing as a whole. And it fulfilled this vision for me, 100 percent.
I don't think I'll ever say what that sentence was.

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Attribution

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