David Lynch

"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And beautiful."

— from Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, 2006

"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper."

— from Book, 2006

"Film is a language. It's like a new language, and you can say things in film that you can't say in words."

— from Interview, 1990