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.
David Lynch

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
David Lynch

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
David Lynch

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
David Lynch

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
David Lynch

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
David Lynch

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
David Lynch


You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
David Lynch