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The David Lynch Quote Collection

David Lynch

Contrast

"Contrast is what makes things work."

"Life is a matter of contrasts. If everything is noisy and a bomb goes off, one is only mildly affected. But, if it's quiet when the explosion hits, one is really affected."

"Everybody's got many threads of [Good and Evil] running through them. But I think in a film, white gets a little whiter, and black gets a little bit blacker, for the sake of the story. Thatīs part of the beauty of it, that contrast..."

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