All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I ju… - David Lynch

But if you know that you’ve got to be somewhere in half an hour, there’s no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There’s not always a lot of time for other things.

Certain aspects of sex are troubling — the way it’s used as power, or the way it takes the form of perversions that exploit other people...Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn’t tap into the mystical aspect of it, either. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.

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