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The David Lynch Quote Collection

David Lynch "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?"
David Lynch, signature

A-C    D-G    H-N    O-S    T-Z

A-C

Abstractions - Absurdity - Actors - Aging - Ants - Architecture - Art life - Balance - Beauty - Bed - Bob's Big Boy - Bombs - Brain - Brothers and Sisters - Budget - Childhood - Child things - Cities - Coffee - Collaboration - Color - Committees - 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, Frank - 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 - Storyboards - Success - Sugar - Surface - Surrealism

T-Z

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


Quotes on his films or other works are in the respective about the film sections.

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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 from the book.

Short Biography
"Lynch on Lynch" edited by Chris Rodley

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© 1996-99 Mike Hartmann
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