The City of Absurdity: The David Lynch Quote Collection


			The David Lynch Quote Collection

"I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?"

A-C | D-G | H-N | O-S | T-Z

A-C

Abstractions - Absurdity - Actors - Aging - Ants - Architecture - Art - Art life - Balance - Beauty - Bed - Bob's Big Boy - Body Bags - Bombs - Brain - Brothers and Sisters - Budget - Cannes - Childhood - Child things - Cities - Coffee - Collaboration - Color - Commercials - Committees - Composition - Compromises - Contrast - Cooking - Curtains

D-G

Death - Death Valley - Detectives - Dental Hygiene - Details - Directing - Dogs - Dreams - Ducks - Editing - Europe - Failure - Favorite Films - Fears - Fifties - Film Noir - Films - Final Cut - Fire - Focus - Furniture - Genre - Gifford, Barry

H-N

Hair - Happy Ending - Hats - Highways - Hollywood - Home - Human Behavior - Ideas - Importance - Influences - Industry - Insects - Irony - Jazz - Kits - Lloyd Wright - Love - Machinery - Meaning - Meditation - Messages - Misogyny - Mounds of Dirt - Music - Mysteries - Nature - New York

O-S

Opposites - Outside - Pacing - Painting - Paperboy - Parents - Philadelphia - Pigeonholing - Place - Plastic - Plumbing - Production Design - Psychology - Rehearsal - Religion - Reviews - School - Scripts - Serendipity - Sex - Sheds - Smoking - Soap Operas - Sound - Special Effects - Storyboards - Success - Sugar - Surface - Surrealism

T-Z

Tables - Technology - Tenderness - Test Screenings - Texture - Time - Traffic - TV - Violence - Voyeurism - Whacking - Wood - Words - Work on films - Work process - Writing

Quotes on his films or other works can be found in the respective about the film sections.

Note: I finally renamed this formerly "Lynch on Lynch" named section to prevent confusions with the now available book "Lynch on Lynch" edited by Chris Rodley (you can order this book here).
This collection is not related to the book and does not contain any quotes taken from the book.

Short Biography | "Lynch on Lynch" edited by Chris Rodley | David Lynch main page