David Lynch on Ideas

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  • Опубліковано 30 лис 2011
  • In this clip, director David Lynch (BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS) discusses the concept of "ideas" like seeds, catching them when they come to him and staying true to them.
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  • @Jonas484p
    @Jonas484p 11 років тому +16

    David Lynch is a true auteur. He's fascinating and so is his work.
    His films gave me a whole new look on the film genre and I love him for that.

  • @elfiebranford9330
    @elfiebranford9330 3 роки тому +4

    I live by this philosophy so much. Fishing for ideas is such a wonderful thing.

  • @tristancollins2461
    @tristancollins2461 11 років тому +5

    This video singlehandedly made me go up 12 rungs on the ladder of enlightenment. I salute you, crendor.

  • @cheatswiz58
    @cheatswiz58 2 роки тому +4

    I am becoming increasingly in love with this man

    • @germanicelt
      @germanicelt Рік тому

      I'm bingeing on Lynch vids atm. He's quite relaxing and reassuring to listen to.

  • @Williamtipq
    @Williamtipq 11 років тому +19

    His hair is too cool. I attempt to wear mine like that every time its short enough.

    • @germanicelt
      @germanicelt Рік тому

      I will cut my hair into that style next summer.

  • @Blakablaka321
    @Blakablaka321 11 років тому +7

    that hair is goddamn fantastic

  • @BrandonFer
    @BrandonFer 11 років тому +4

    this man is important

  • @Fridge_Fiend
    @Fridge_Fiend 9 років тому +25

    The mind fish have sprouted from the tree of knowladge to form guy hero

    • @soup3015
      @soup3015 9 років тому +2

      Jetzido what about flordia man

  • @filmmaker610
    @filmmaker610 3 роки тому +2

    I’m here after watching David Lynch’s awesome regular weather reports. Have a great day!

  • @kookai1996
    @kookai1996 11 років тому +5

    he.is.fucking.genius. LOVE HIM!

  • @slonamu
    @slonamu 12 років тому +1

    @generalcircle
    Born to a middle class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood travelling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977).

  • @generalcircle
    @generalcircle 12 років тому

    east coast directors are amazing!

  • @conormclaughlan772
    @conormclaughlan772 7 років тому +2

    Interesting!

  • @storotso
    @storotso 10 років тому +3

    Now i know why you reason the way you do on the Cox'n Crendor podcast :O

  • @Struggle4Power
    @Struggle4Power 11 років тому +11

    Crendor was right about this guy... He's absolutely amazing. I wish I could explode like a fish idea with electricty and light or... whatever he said.

  • @sergiodavila3290
    @sergiodavila3290 Рік тому +1

    This is almost identical to Aristotle’s theory of the ideas. It’s actually quite remarkable.

    • @Qliphirot
      @Qliphirot Рік тому

      This is completely platonic

    • @sergiodavila3290
      @sergiodavila3290 Рік тому

      @@Qliphirot I’m actually of the opinion that the two are not so drastically different in their neo/Classical forms. The reason Aristotle came to mind is because in Greek, “the forms” are εἶδος/εἴδη/ideas (same word Plato uses too), although the Aristotelian tradition evolved into a more quasi-realist direction, where reality is something one participates in, but also, the mind gives meaning to reality by understanding the ideas as they come in. Lynch’s views here are even closer, because he talks about the ideas as if they are foreign possibilities that spontaneously enter the mind from some kind of intellectual source of ideas. Obviously, very similar to Plato here, but Aristotle didn’t think the ideas actually existed except mentally. Plato thought there were literally concrete ideas like 3-ness or redness in a heaven of ideas. However, Platonism was developed later and gradually grew closer to the place Aristotelianism ended up. I believe they are equivalent - for all intents and purposes - in their later classical forms. Beautiful theories!

    • @Qliphirot
      @Qliphirot Рік тому

      @@sergiodavila3290 Apparently many artists have similar concepts about where their ideas come from. Are you familiar with Alan Moore's work? Alan Moore has a very similar theory about the creative process, he came up with a concept called "Idea-space". Instead of using transcendental meditation, like Lynch does to catch his "fish", he uses other devices to delve deep into this "idea-space", like magick rituals or say entheogens. Check it out, he talks about it on his own documentary and many magazines.

    • @sergiodavila3290
      @sergiodavila3290 Рік тому

      @@Qliphirot I didn’t recognize the name (shamefully), but I am very familiar with his mainstream work. I’ve only read the Killing Joke, but I’ve watched Watchmen and V for Vendetta. I didn’t know these all came from the same mind, so I will reflect on that for a bit. All of these works were compelling. I agree with you, that does sound very similar to Lynch as well. I honestly and strongly believe that the reason we see so many people converge on the same concept is because that is a real concept. It’s reality. It’s similar to how Pascal’s triangle appears in Chinese texts, Indian texts, and Newton independently developed the concept. Reality has an objective character that we can all understand by interacting with it and contemplating it. It is mysterious, but also extremely rational. Beauty and Art is more of an abstract slice of reality, but I’ve heard physicist and Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann talk about the odd relation between Reality and Beauty. Like when Richard Dawkins said “Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree, you can f*ck off.” Hilariously, I think that’s actually profound. While tastes are subjective, there is an objective character about Beauty precisely because it emerges from our experience with objective reality. Math, science, art, music, dance, poetry, film, etc. This is Beauty. Anyone who disagrees just isn’t honest. That’s why they can f*ck off, respectively.

  • @AntonioSaucedo22
    @AntonioSaucedo22 10 років тому

    best comment. ever. and true.

  • @generalcircle
    @generalcircle 12 років тому

    @slonamu the guy started making films in philly before moving to LA. hence East Coast

  • @timlovell
    @timlovell 11 років тому +8

    It's like his hair is on backwards.

  • @andystates3210
    @andystates3210 8 років тому +17

    Stop listening to HOW he's saying this, listen to what he's actually saying. He's offering some great knowledge and you're going to miss out on it if you're focusing on his speaking abilities.

  • @greyeyed123
    @greyeyed123 12 років тому +3

    I need to brush my teeth.

  • @DumbassPen
    @DumbassPen 10 років тому +1

    you sent me here

  • @AntonioSaucedo22
    @AntonioSaucedo22 12 років тому +2

    somehow the whole spiel makes sense

  • @JordeezyD23
    @JordeezyD23 11 років тому

    what did jesse say about it

  • @turntapzap
    @turntapzap 12 років тому

    I would like to have that hair.

    • @germanicelt
      @germanicelt Рік тому

      Did you finally achieve having that hair?

  • @Cheesepufflord
    @Cheesepufflord 11 років тому

    It is genius

  • @evangelinaras
    @evangelinaras 7 років тому +1

    He grill - R

  • @derZyklusII
    @derZyklusII 12 років тому

    never heard him speak before.. odd voice but like what he says

  • @ChuckUppercut
    @ChuckUppercut 11 років тому

    crendor, you should style your hair like this guy

  • @NekoDZ
    @NekoDZ 11 років тому

    Jesse's right.

  • @fickdich2867
    @fickdich2867 10 місяців тому

    Ideas are like girlfriends. They are wonderful and beautiful, but you don't know how to get a good one.

  • @DarinWasteland
    @DarinWasteland 10 років тому +5

    The stuff he says wouldn't sound so crazy if he didn't speak in run on sentences.

    • @user-bl9hh1xm9w
      @user-bl9hh1xm9w 3 роки тому +4

      Hey asshole, there’s a gap between your 2 last words! 🤓

  • @Borpinator
    @Borpinator 11 років тому

    oooh you think you are creative bro?
    pop vulture blog? Ha good one

  • @allenbreaux97
    @allenbreaux97 10 років тому

    Is he insane jw

    • @jonrixbus
      @jonrixbus Рік тому

      A sane man in an insane world.

  • @derpofishguy
    @derpofishguy 11 років тому +2

    He looks super wasted.

  • @grubbymanz3928
    @grubbymanz3928 Рік тому

    all these artists say this, idk if it's humility or what, but none of it has literally any basis in neuroscience or cognitive science. Ideas are spit out by your brain, it's a thinking machine, it's not tuning into some idea well. It just feels external bc it starts in preconsciousness.

    • @michelerusso9745
      @michelerusso9745 Місяць тому

      It feels external because it's alla based on influences and impulses from the external world, and the idea is basically your way of interpreting them, so they don't really start out of nothing

  • @LapineImperator
    @LapineImperator 11 років тому

    Translation: Justification for stealing all your stuff and 'reworking' it.