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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.

— David Lynch Catching the Big Fish (2006)

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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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