On Writing

“There’s the donut and there’s the hole. You should keep your eye on the donut. All the other things that go on, they don’t matter. What matters is falling in love with the story or ideas and realizing those. There’s things going on in the world all the time and some people become obsessed with those. Your job is to stay focused and hope the ideas keep coming, and able to realize them. The hole is so deep and so bad. The donut is a beautiful thing.”

— David Lynch

HT: FilmmakerIQ.