David Lynch on Where Great Ideas Come From

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  • In 2008, The Atlantic sat down with the filmmaker David Lynch as he mused about inspiration and how to capture the flow of creativity. Now, we’ve animated his words of advice. “A lot of artists think that suffering is necessary,” he says. “But in reality, any kind of suffering cramps the flow of creativity.”
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  • @tristanrow4951
    @tristanrow4951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    I kind of can't overstate how accurately Lynch describes the flow of creativity here

    • @kagarii
      @kagarii ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Phil “PM” Modesto no this is accurate. think about getting an idea for a story or something, its only a scene not the whole thing but that one scene overtime blossoms and becomes your full story. Thats how it feels for me anyway

    • @jdnm797
      @jdnm797 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. I love his thoughts about parts of a movie being puzzle pieces which are really abstract, then as more ideas come it starts forming a 'thing'. That's a really smart way of describing creativity. It has to be worked on and developed, yet keep it true to its essence to build it in to something tangible and worthwhile. It really is a journey of discovery.

    • @alvinhaglund5811
      @alvinhaglund5811 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "I kind of cant of overstate how" ... what a gay way of starting a statement. what lynch here describes is pretty much basic knowledge (and he's right, of course), but the weird cartoon movie going along with it tries to make it appear more original than it is. a similar example is the youtube video "this is water" that superimposes a david wallace reading with wannabe meaningful images

  • @MrYulienskate
    @MrYulienskate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    "Let's say that Van Gogh, everytime he went out to paint he got diarrhea"
    lmao

  • @ellisparrish5002
    @ellisparrish5002 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    God loves David Lynch. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

  • @TrippingTheTube
    @TrippingTheTube 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this.

  • @sambarker6312
    @sambarker6312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it

  • @zeepickens9049
    @zeepickens9049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    💝

  • @emperorjoop
    @emperorjoop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    That Twin Peaks animation @ 1:01 was awesome.

  • @clarathordiss3663
    @clarathordiss3663 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Everyone has ideas. Creatives are the people who have the skill and the capacity for hard work to turn those ideas into works of art - films, books, paintings, plays.

    • @MightyEFX
      @MightyEFX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      not entirely true, i know some people who are utterly creatively bankrupt which i blame to be because of their lifestyle

    • @CielBlanche
      @CielBlanche 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      lots of people have bad ideas

  • @farzanamughal5933
    @farzanamughal5933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They did the corporate art thing on Lynch

    • @Ari-ww3fv
      @Ari-ww3fv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I actually appreciated it because it visualized the abstract things Lynch was saying. Maybe I’m just an idiot lol.

    • @farzanamughal5933
      @farzanamughal5933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ari-ww3fv Yeah I just found it funny bc I associate that art style with something that is the opposite of Lynch

  • @normanoro206
    @normanoro206 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Although I've never been a filmmaker and I don't foresee ever becoming one, I think David Lynch's work is pretty amazing. I've self-published some science-fiction stories as a hobby; and though people probably vary, my experiences do largely jibe with what he says.

  • @NadavMerom
    @NadavMerom 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Very nice animation!

  • @MM-bw1lo
    @MM-bw1lo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow, what a great approach to creativity, love the illustrations, made the message come to life

  • @DanielThePoet22
    @DanielThePoet22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    David Lynch is the man we need for our madness world

  • @mikeydashank3897
    @mikeydashank3897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I think he may be right that there are no original ideas, we just catch the ones that already exist. sometimes I come up with something really creative when I'm drawing or playing piano, and I think to myself "there's no way somebody else hasn't thought of this before, I just may be the first to actually put it into reality"

    • @chaoswitch1974
      @chaoswitch1974 ปีที่แล้ว

      ... that you know of.

    • @mikeydashank3897
      @mikeydashank3897 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chaoswitch1974 yeah I'm pretty sure I made that clear in my post.

  • @darshanpatil7777
    @darshanpatil7777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Suffering cramps the flow of creativity ✔️

  • @randomone4832
    @randomone4832 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes, ideas are important, but what you do with them is even moreso.

  • @tgchan
    @tgchan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a beautiful video/ Amazing job/

  • @themanhimself5650
    @themanhimself5650 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love this

  • @scazab6408
    @scazab6408 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Extremely accurate, I have a folder with ideas that I write ever since I was like 13 lol

  • @Space_Writer
    @Space_Writer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "you don't make the fish, you catch the fish." I like that. I'd say that it feels like my head is a fishbowl, full of ideas and stories but its more like a giant lake. Only I don't have a fishing pole, a net, or even a sharply pointed stick...only my hands.
    By the way, the imagery for this piece brilliant.

  • @kirigrant3439
    @kirigrant3439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The legend. The description of how creativity is formed is perfectly put.

    • @jdnm797
      @jdnm797 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philpmmodesto He made total sense. Who said creativity should be 'fun and easy'? I don't think you understand what creativity is in this context.

    • @Yuckod
      @Yuckod ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philpmmodesto What makes you think that one can't feel through abstraction? In a way, our own thoughts and feelings are their own abstractions, humans just apply their own understanding of what they feel/see in each moment. Like how some people associate anger with the color red. The color red has no intrinsic meaning, it's just the result of light refracting off of cones in our head. It's the context of life and humanity that applies meaning to everything. Also, addressing your statement, "It's like saying I am going to make you laugh by making you feel sad", let me ask you this: what determines something to be funny in the first place? Is it because something is intrinsically funny or is it because somebody finds their own humor in something?

    • @Yuckod
      @Yuckod ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philpmmodesto what the fuck are you talking about

  • @MightyEFX
    @MightyEFX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i love david lynch

  • @simonabbott
    @simonabbott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    trillions and zillions of ideas!

    • @andygtmo
      @andygtmo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Massive, massive quantities!

  • @Qliphirot
    @Qliphirot ปีที่แล้ว

    Alan Moore has a very similar concept and he calls it "idea-space". They're both influenced by Plato.

  • @blueabattoir
    @blueabattoir ปีที่แล้ว

    Always, always carry something to write down your ideas, or carry a recording device to make notes. Any artist can tell you how ideas can disappear in a moment. Never fool yourself that you will simply remember the ideas.

  • @aaronwimberleymbamsf5776
    @aaronwimberleymbamsf5776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Classic & timeless=]

  • @ericheine2414
    @ericheine2414 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sometimes I have a catch-and-release program. I catch an idea and then I let it go. I returned it to the circle of life.

  • @bodomiller4275
    @bodomiller4275 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very nice video

  • @buranopeach5245
    @buranopeach5245 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Van gogh would have to be crazy!
    He was!!!

  • @Leksy728
    @Leksy728 ปีที่แล้ว

    💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

  • @u-tubeeditor6696
    @u-tubeeditor6696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ...the worst problem with the universe, is the inability to stop laughing at how close together [war & peace] are in logic...next thing we know, all we see is an elderly person looking like a child, swimming in fire...”totally a peace with the world, yah...right...”

    • @marymauntz5805
      @marymauntz5805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How are they close together in logic?

  • @tejvirmann
    @tejvirmann ปีที่แล้ว

    took my metaphor

  • @IdiotForLove
    @IdiotForLove 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The animation on this is just brilliant