S.A. David Quotes

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

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?

People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

The more you meditate the better life gets.

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.

There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.