David Lynch on ideas

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

We all reflect the world we live in. Even if you make a period film, it will reflect your times.

Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885