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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.

— David Lynch The Making of Dune (1984)

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

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

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

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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.

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