Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Everything is always a little surreal.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

I'll tell you, 'Fire Walk With Me' is the one for 'Twin Peaks' fans. It's much more haunted than the TV series.

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.

There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.