Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
David LynchRead
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of time management and prioritization in creative pursuits, especially in filmmaking.
David Lynch emphasizes the finite nature of time, specifically the 24 hours in a day, and how he must prioritize his primary passion, making films. However, he also expresses a love for short film experiments, indicating a balance between his main focus and creative explorations that may enhance his artistry.
In practice
In a filmmaking workshop to inspire creativity.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
In todayβs world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
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