Ideas are everything.

We're nothing without an idea.

So I go where the ideas lead.

When we get an idea that we love,

you see it and feel it and know it all at once.

A desire for an idea is like putting a little piece of bait

on a hook and lowering it into the water.

You don't know when they're going to come

or what will trigger them.

Lo and behold, on a lucky day, bingo-- you'll

catch an idea, and party time.

If you want to make a feature length film, all you need to do

is get 70 ideas.

And you write these scenes on three-by-five cards.

Then when you have 70 of them, you've got a feature film.

Find your own voice.

Never give up final cut and total creative freedom.

Everything is connected in some way or another.

You could be working on a painting,

and suddenly, something in that gives you an idea for a film.

Music, painting, cinema-- this is the art life.

In cinema, I don't like rules.

In "Mulholland Drive," we only had one shot left to get.

WOMAN: How did you get it?

By breaking the rules.

[CHUCKLES] My name is David Lynch,

and this is my MasterClass.