david lynch interview
posted April 20, 2001 #
Okay, so it's almost 5 AM and I feel the need to share this little excerpt from an interview I read with David Lynch. I'm only 22, but so far I agree with what he says and feel like I will for a long time.
Mark Cousins: You're, I think, around 53 now. What age do you feel?
David Lynch: Inside we're ageless, and when we talk to ourselves it's the same person we were talking to, the same age, when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless centre.
Mark Cousins: See, surely that's not true. I used to be scared of things as a kid and I'm not scared of them now.
David Lynch: That's not the self that you're talking to, that's the amount of information you have, and information and experience, knowledge and experience is part of the . . . is the process. So the more knowledge you have coupled with experience, you know, the more you go, but the self you talk to, I was talking about, that's the one that's sort of ageless. Doesn't mean ignorant, it just means it just doesn't have an age.
Mark Cousins: You're, I think, around 53 now. What age do you feel?
David Lynch: Inside we're ageless, and when we talk to ourselves it's the same person we were talking to, the same age, when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless centre.
Mark Cousins: See, surely that's not true. I used to be scared of things as a kid and I'm not scared of them now.
David Lynch: That's not the self that you're talking to, that's the amount of information you have, and information and experience, knowledge and experience is part of the . . . is the process. So the more knowledge you have coupled with experience, you know, the more you go, but the self you talk to, I was talking about, that's the one that's sort of ageless. Doesn't mean ignorant, it just means it just doesn't have an age.