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"The Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit"

   Mon, May 7, 2007 - 8:41 AM
"Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they're like poison to the filmmaker or artist. They're like a vise grip on creativity. If you're in that grip, you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create. You have to be able to catch ideas."


David Lynch interview:
www.utne.com/issues/2007...12534-1.html
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Mon, May 7, 2007 - 10:56 AM
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he's right about that, though depression can take you deeper as a person and allow you to have compassion for the suffering of others. it is best not to dwell there though.....it inhibits creative action.

I liked his advice at the end of the article:

"Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it. Never turn down a good idea, but never take a bad idea. And meditate. It's very important to experience that Self, that pure consciousness. It's really helped me. I think it would help any filmmaker. So start diving within, enlivening that bliss consciousness. Grow in happiness and intuition. Experience the joy of doing. And you'll glow in this peaceful way. Your friends will be very, very happy with you. Everyone will want to sit next to you. And people will give you money!"
 
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