Screenwriting 101: David Lynch
“The world to me is a mixture of the two. Intuition is thought and feeling working together. You intuit things in life, right? The language…
“The world to me is a mixture of the two. Intuition is thought and feeling working together. You intuit things in life, right? The language of film is so perfect for this intuiting; it’s just beautiful. So you have what they call an ‘inner-knowing’ whether you realize it or not. Right after seeing the film with somebody else, you could argue and say, ‘No, no, no, that’s not how I see it.’ You’d be surprised how much the mind has figured out, and by talking, other things come out. Words are a poor way to say certain things. You realize you know more than you can speak.”
— David Lynch, excerpted from Creative Screenwriting, November/December, 2001
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