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David Lynch

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I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.


— David Lynch


#art

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.


— David Lynch


#coffee

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


— David Lynch


#top #weird #whole #wild #world

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.


— David Lynch


#between #connected #exist #here #i

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.


— David Lynch


#every #i #many #meant #philadelphia

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.


— David Lynch


#complicated #films #life #should #too

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.


— David Lynch


#especially #film #going #hit #nothing

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


— David Lynch


#depict #doorway #flat #movies #mystical

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.


— David Lynch


#better #digital #film #getting #getting better

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


— David Lynch


#dead #dictate #everything #ideas #true






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" It was here that he began a relationship with a fellow student Peggy Reavey and they were married in 1967. Initially funding for the project came from the AFI who gave Lynch a $10000 grant but it was not enough to complete the work and under pressure from studios after the success of the relatively cheap feature film Easy Rider they were unable to provide him with any more. However in order to do so he would have to get the permission of Mel Brooks whose company BrookFilms would be responsible for production; subsequently Brooks viewed Eraserhead and after coming out of the screening theatre embraced Lynch declaring that "You're a madman I love you! You're in.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor the country's top civilian honor as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007 while that same year The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era". The surreal and in many cases violent elements contained within his films have been known to "disturb offend or mystify" audiences. After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980) from which he gained mainstream success.

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