"When you realize your full potential, you don't have to worry about anything" I don't think truer words have ever been spoken that resonate so much with me. Mr. Lynch is a one-of-a-kind treasure.

i love how he moves his hand like that when he describes conciousness and abstract ideas as if he's trying to grasp at something. i love how he goes off on a huge thing about the amazingness of enlightenment and then admits "i am totally not there." i love his midwestern robot-like voice, i love his movies and most of all i love David Lynch

This Lady's question spiraled out of control, her question was a big fish she couldn't cook

Could whoever stole Mr Lynch's piano please give it back?

I love this guy, he inspired me to start meditating (not TM because it is much too expensive, but another program taught by former TM teachers that teaches exactly the same method for about 2% of the price of TM), which I am very grateful for beacause it has benefited me a LOT in the past 6 months. (It has taken me this long to be able to regularly sit in mental silence for even 4 or 5 minutes at a time.) Like he says, things just get better and clearer as time goes on.

I love David Lynch. He's my role model because he doesn't give a f*** what anybody thinks and hasn't for decades. haha. And of course he teaches how he became how he is.

he expresses his mind and does it in a beautiful way.

0:15 Leland Palmer walks cross the picture. At low speed you can hear him say "I did not kill her"

What Lynch is saying is if u have the creative mind without even trying bc of either s true gift or chemical induced, it will translate into getting it done. Just don't get lazy and create what u visualize and write the ideas that come to thought. Happens to all of the best who have IMAGINATION !

I expected him to go into his Gordon Cole character.

Omg, she took about a minute to ask something that was so simple!! And made it sound like something so complicated too.I love how David responds with such patience... he's so cool.

Remain silent, David Lynch's right hand is speaking! XD

I've seen most of Lynch's work, my conclusion is he is a genius.

He went on for 15 minutes and brought it back to the original question about the fish. I love this guy.

I love David Lynch. I could not describe what exacly I love about his movies. I just love them. Surrealism is my favourite form of films and he is brilliant at it. One day I want to make a surrealist movie because how David Lynch influenced and inspired me. I know I am just an amateur filmmaker, but I hope that one day I will make movies like David Lynch himself.

His right hand is amazing. It's just.. Oh my god.

This is genius, Love it. I love Lynch!

David Lynch must be a fan of SPIRIT FINGERS!

This woman needs to figure out how to realize her question.

Brilliant man

I love his "howdy"

Yes, I've made that assumption based on the empirical evidence of what you've said and how you've said it. All the best.

The question the women asked.... I couldn't even understand what she was trying to say lol.

He's so right.

his left ear looks like mitt romney

We're waiting for you. Do your best like he says

Again a nice response. This world would be a better place if all of us just gave people the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, but being cautious while doing so. I suppose I can't say I'm 100% positive about whether Lynch is projecting a typical artist persona or not, but everything in my experience and dealings with similar characteristics strongly points to it. Believe me, I'm not putting myself above Lynch here. I suppose it doesn't matter, it just annoys me. Hoping for a new film!

Davids hands are shaking both the audience's consciousness and the cameraman's grip

Brilliant. Of Course!

skip to 1:06

Thank you!

Yes, I have seen him! I watched both Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'or that he did with Salvador Dalí! They are both great movies. Well, good luck with your films!

@anomalyeight Your analysis is spot-on!

gotta love those finger wiggles

nice video

very clever explanation. :))

3:20 bless you!

sound good enough too

So much respect for Lynch, but the question was about material conditions and he really didn’t even seem to touch on it, or care to or realize it to do so. What if you don’t have access to the fireplace, or the flint to start the fire or the spit on which to cook the fish, let alone the rod or bait, etc. not to harp on a metaphor, obviously, but her question really does still stand

people are complaining that he didn't adequately answer her question, but he must be an awfully good listener to be able to understand or answer it at all.

@WeAreCameron thank you! i was thinking it, and you typed it.

David Lynch inspires. Ever heard of Lucid Rivers?

great filmmaker, he visited Poland in 2007 :D

Too frighteningly true!

@Nautilus1972 Yes yes... done that. That is not what it is about. The idea of LSD and mushrooms is an idea not unlike travel. To enter into a world you haven never seen yet exists, to experience a language of existence unlike that of everyday experience. Its all good. But what I do think he is talking about is having your conscious mind tune in to living. Like enlarging every experience you have so that you are hyper alert to them. Obviously a good thing for someone who is not psychotic.

@anomalyeight Watch Eraserhead with the sound turned way up, surround sound, and really good bass. That is how all David Lynch should be viewed.

I love you David Lynch. I love Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway because of your clever ideas. I enjoyed solving what I saw and picking out how none of it actually contradicts each other. I dig Inland Empire, The Elephant man, Twin Peaks FWWM & Eraserhead, but please stop being portentous... Your the real deal. There's no need to be showy. The things you say makes sense, but please stop going off about how enlightened you are and how everyone needs to meditate to reach there. Thumbs down, right?

he's like sprinkling imaginary glitter with his hands, all the time. iS it a sort of blessing? :D

who'd know lynch would be so optimistic? i just wanna go make a film now...

should i use my hand too?

whoa o the possibilities.........

He has great hair.

1. she's asking him to provide her with some sugar-coated reassurance that society will satisfy everyone's [read: her] potential, which it doesn't; life is unfair. 2. society doesn't expect "so much" from us (see LucasSumtimes' response); society "expects" nothing from us. It takes rebellion, audacity, research, ego and luck to get yr creative visions out there for other people to see.

David Lynch is the Chuck Norris of intellect.

To get in full potential you got to find the others and share your thoughts with the collective Anyone who thinks that he or she has some potential or great thoughts but no techniques to manifest them into this fysical world, should not be afraid to bring them into the world. Find someone who is interested and believes in your ideas, someone who can teach or have the tools to manifest them. I mean a designer doesn't have to know how to hammer the nail into the wooden chair. Find the others and form a trinities to colloborate with. someone who is spiritual someone who is into science someone who is into philosophy Invite someone in your house and stop consuming images start producing them.

@anomalyeight also, on ideas, he has said that he realizes ideas while meditating. I don't understand. He seems adamant that he is growing his consciousness, yet, his best film hands down was Eraserhead. Hmmmm.

@mskj444 Yes, I caught that. Did you catch the entire rest of the video starting at 1:30? It's easy to make one comment on your humility, but tell me that he doesn't feel a little showy? Again, I love David Lynch, I really love his films, and I think he's a great human being and I'm a big fan. When it comes to his work he is no phoney but publicly he's definitely got some magician act going on. Ever hang out at a college for art? The more knowledgeable than thou artist act is pretty cliche.

The title for this video doesn't seem appropriate, cuz David didn't seem to address it. The woman asking the question didn't even seem to ask "how does one translate an idea into reality?" either.

@anomalyeight The Elephant Man is my favourite movie of all time. Unquestionably brilliant. It's the perfect movie.

I think he's telling me to use LSD

0:30 Gordon, is this you?

that david lynch fingers... :D

@kibbss ah yes... insanely good...I even love Inland Empire. However, neither capture the feeling of being inside a world the same way Eraserhead does.

@mskj444 Very nice reply. So different than what I'm used to on youtube. I believe you and you make a fine point. It only matters what your actually doing I suppose. You see, I just have hands on experience with the kind of portrayal I'm talking about. Wouldn't you agree it's possible to be showy without even realizing it? My father (who is also an artist but nowhere near as good) has got a remarkably similar thing going on as David Lynch here. Probably why it bothers me (even embarrasses me).

@anomalyeight thank you. I am a HUGE Lynch fan.I saw him give one of these talks. I understand, do the thing grow the consciousness yeah yeah. But he never gets at what he means by CONSCIOUSNESS. Since I saw him 6 years ago talking about this I have thought a lot about what consciousness is. I thought, my girlfriend has a bigger consciousness than I because she has been around the world and I haven't. What he is talking about is something different and he is not articulating it.

i get what he said and her question too. Though I am quite mesmerized by his wiggly fingers. :)

Title of video not 100% on the nose, but interesting. He really does provoke me to wonder if I can hop the TM train.

00:17, Leland Palmer walking.

so, what did normansmother1 actually say?

Its interesting why I didn't realize this before; there is a giant generation difference that is wider and deeper than the Grand canyon even the fjords because I now realize that my generation of the 1980's although saw the dawn of the technology period: i.e.: personal computers: macintosh etc, We still had NO cell phones, internet or ANY INSTANT gratification-on demand technologies to interfere in our lives; WE actually had MORE patience back then and we understood that nothing will happen overnight or in a day week month or year. But rather we understood it takes YEARS tobe an artist or anyone creative; it took time to develop ideas and that meditation was a practice/ritual/habit of mind in your life that grew as you did. the millenial generations that have been raised with on-demand instant gratification DO NOT HAVE the patience or understanding that is required with time. They want it now. This isn't esotercism this about how technology has actually changed our brains for better and worse. I'm not inventing this the 10-year longitudinal studies are out and published. Technology has reconfigured human brains. For the better or worse ?? read the studies and decide for yourselves. All I can say is when i was in my 20's in the late 1980's the internet was availble ony to University professors & by 1990 & the early 1990's was only available in University libraries & the NYPL. I always practiced a form of transcendental meditation as it was popular among artists & then the NEw Age movet of the 1980's I still have myself and maintain an equilibrium in my life that I don't think I would ever be able to do if I grew up in this era.

@normansmother1 They feel the need to prove to everyone that they are the smartest person in the room. "Please be impressed by me!"

it's all in the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda.

How long does it take that woman to ask a question?

yes, what you are trying to say is that this kind of ideology doesn't give you the answers you want, which is completely understandable. maybe if you think that physics would help you get to the deep understanding of things you should go for it! but remember that doing one thing should not keep you from doing the other. i think that both meditation or physics or anything that makes you wonder about the meaning of life is good and healthy :)

@99Sorc Ironically, you are saying that you call him arrogant based on what he said... and what he said was that you are arrogant... and he probably drew that conclusion based on what you said. Perhaps we can generally agree that if you find it prudent to refer to someone as arrogant based solely on a few KZfaq comments, you're... arrogant? Or perhaps that publishing your opinions on a KZfaq page is arrogant to begin with? But perhaps saying that would be arrogant.

David Lynch doesn't control his fingers, his fingers control and speak through him

@mskj444 Wouldn't you agree that great intentions doesn't make a person any less deliberately charismatic? I'm sure you've noticed that it is a typical trait in artists to have a strong desire for not only acceptance but even a wide public love of themselves. Nothing wrong with that, perfectly healthy, but often it may overtake their sincerity without them even realizing it. I believe he is a very self-conscious individual, but with much respect to him, I don't think Lynch is conscious of this.

Elaborating a bit more, she's making reference to the old Pygmalion ethics of taking an unenlightened guttersnipe, if you will, out of ignorance and into a new awareness by pointing out her true potential just to toss her back out into the street. He reminds her that fulfillment should be sought in awareness of one's own potential, not in any reward or celebrity that may come from exercising that potential. It is enough that the guttersnipe knows within herself she is a lady-even in squalor.

@strokedude ment to say this a while ago, thanks, never ever thought of that, I feel dumb for not having thought of all that. Don't get me wrong, I would have learned it by now if I had the chance and $.

check out the writings and techniques and life of Paramahansa Yogananda. you will not regret it. the teachings are incomparable.

i love him. the only think i dont get is ... after all this meditation, why does he have such sad eyes?

@hark2e Jazz hands.

wow

Um, Um, Um, Um X 100!!!!!!!!!!!

David lynch is able to explain conscience righteously but who is to put depth vs value vs potential??

@normansmother1 Love what you said, but don't apologize.

sounds like the law of attraction around 2:20 or so

@normansmother1 not really. there is more to her question. goes to show you're jaded in art college because you don't understand what anyone says.

@WeAreCameron I don't think it's her second language, I think she's british hahaha. I'm not generalizing the british, I'm just trying to pinpoint the accent.

Why not have a sound tech? It's stupid to have an interview in a space where people's voices bounce the walls.

and acid

I am an amateur filmmaker too and surrealism is my favorite art form. I can't imagine cinema without surrealism. Have you seen a few of Luis Bunuel's films?

@freud5137 so true ;)

She needs to learn the art of editing!!

3:30 STOP SNEEZING, I'M TRYING TO LISTEN TO DAVID LYNCH

David, if you don't have any money, then your full potential is just f*cking sushi!

lynch is great, i love lynch, but i don't think he gave an answer that fits the question that was asked

the shadows on his ear make it look like a little face

@normansmother1 ditto

Totality is an illusion.