Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and CreativityIn this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Catching Ideas 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 they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. --from Catching the Big Fish |
Contents
The First Dive | 3 |
Suffocating Rubber Clow Suit | 7 |
Starting Out | 9 |
The Art Life | 11 |
A Garden at Night | 13 |
Curtains Up | 15 |
Cinema | 17 |
Interpretation | 19 |
Suffering | 93 |
Light of the Self | 97 |
A Tower of Gold | 99 |
Religion | 101 |
Drugs | 103 |
Turn On the Light | 105 |
Industrial Symphony No1 | 107 |
Lost Highway | 109 |
The Circle | 21 |
Ideas | 23 |
Desire | 25 |
Consciousness | 27 |
Translating the Idea | 29 |
Los Angeles | 31 |
Eraserhead | 33 |
The Pace of Life | 35 |
Yogis | 37 |
Bobs Big Boy | 39 |
The Angriest Dog in the World | 41 |
Music | 43 |
Intuition | 45 |
The Unified field | 47 |
The Fourth State | 49 |
Getting There | 51 |
Modern Science and Ancient Science | 53 |
Anywhere Anytime | 55 |
Identity | 57 |
Final Cut | 59 |
Therapy | 61 |
Dreams | 63 |
Angelo Badalamenti | 65 |
Sound | 67 |
Casting | 69 |
Rehearsal | 71 |
Fear | 73 |
All Together Now | 75 |
Twin Peaks | 77 |
The Continuing Story | 79 |
The Red Room | 81 |
Ask the Idea | 83 |
Test Audience | 87 |
Generalizations | 89 |
Darkness | 91 |
Restrictions | 111 |
Mulholland Drive | 113 |
The Box and the Key | 115 |
A Sense of Place | 117 |
Beauty | 119 |
Texture | 121 |
Working with Wood | 123 |
Having a Setup | 125 |
Fire | 127 |
Light on Film | 129 |
The Straight Story | 131 |
Heroes of Film | 133 |
Fellini | 135 |
Kubrick | 137 |
INLAND EMPIRE | 139 |
The Name | 143 |
A New Way to Work | 145 |
Directors Commentary | 147 |
The Death of Film | 149 |
DV for Young Filmmakers | 151 |
DV Quality | 153 |
Future of Cinema | 155 |
Common Sense | 157 |
Advice | 159 |
Sleep | 161 |
Keep at It | 163 |
Success and Failure | 165 |
Gone Fishing Again | 167 |
Compassion | 169 |
ConsciousnessBased Education | 171 |
Real Peace | 175 |
In Closing | 177 |
True Happiness Lies Within | 179 |
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th ... David Lynch Limited preview - 2007 |
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity David Lynch No preview available - 2006 |
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