David Lynch [Auteur]

By: Editor | March 09, 2011 | Ten by Ten

Director David Lynch gained an instant following in 1977 with his first feature-length flick, Eraserhead, which Stanley Kubrick defined one of his all-time favorite films. Eraserhead became a cult underground movie, and Lynch maintained his success as a visionary artist with a devoted following. He created the TV drama Twin Peaks and was nominated three times for Best Director at the Academy Awards for his films The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). Lynch has won a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. His psychological thrillers are often set in an oneiric dimension that mixes elements of surrealism and film noir. In addition to being a filmmaker, he is a painter, photographer and sound designer, and a mainstream advocate of Transcendental Meditation through the David Lynch Foundation.

Name one person you most admire, past or present, and why?
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Maharishi gained his supreme enlightenment and then gave out the techniques for any other human beings to gain that same supreme enlightenment.

How would you define happiness?
Happiness is a fleeting thing. We find happiness, but because we live in a world of change, we see that that happiness begins to fade and then we find ourselves looking somewhere else for happiness. Bliss is extreme happiness. There is an ocean of infinite bliss within every human being. When one transcends during Transcendental Meditation, they experience that ocean of infinite bliss within, and they infuse some every time they have that experience.

This bliss, this extreme happiness, doesn’t fade. The more you transcend, the more you infuse, the more you keep. And it is physical, emotional, mental, spiritual happiness. The body feels happy. The emotions feel happy. The mind feels happy. The spirit feels happy. Maharishi has said that mankind was not made to suffer. Bliss is our nature. The big treasury of bliss is within every human being; all we need is a technique to dive within and get it. It’s easy, effortless, supremely profound and beautiful. 

How would you define the role of art in modern society?
The role of art in modern in society is very, very small — unfortunately. When you have an economic downturn, a world filled with so many problems and stress, and stress even approaching traumatic stress, art takes a back seat.

What is the best career advice you’ve ever received, and who gave it to you?
The best thing for any career is to learn Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation. The technique allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience that unbounded infinite eternal level of life — an ocean of pure consciousness, infinite intelligent, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, bliss, infinite love, infinite energy, infinite peace — and infuse some of that each time you transcend and grow in that, and, as a result, see negativity begin to lift away from your life.
You will see that it serves your career in the most positive fantastic ways. The biggest thing you can do for your life and career is to practice this technique on a regular basis and enjoy life and do great work.

What artist (musician, poet, painter, etc.) has had the greatest impact on your life and how?
There are many artists that have inspired me, whose work thrills me. But I always say, that as far as my own work goes, the city of Philadelphia has probably been my biggest influence.

What is your greatest extravagance?
My greatest extravagance is equipment and tools.

How would you like to be remembered?
I would like to be remembered as a worker — a happy worker.

Favorite all-time …
Song:
Movie:
Painting:
Book:
TV Show:
It’s impossible to answer these questions.

How would you define love?
Love is an all-consuming maximum good feeling. 

If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be and why?
Remove all negativity. The result would be real peace. And this is entirely possible with technologies that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived. Programs are in the works right now if anybody is interested in helping out. Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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