David Lynch

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. ”

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. ”

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. ”

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. ”

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. ”

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. ”

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. ”

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. ”

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. ”

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. ”