David Lynch逝世,享年78歲。他的家人在其社交媒體上公佈這一消息,「我們懷著深深的遺憾,宣布我們的家人、藝術家David Lynch的去世。這段時間我們希望能獲得一些隱私。現在的世界因為他的離去而留下了一個巨大的空洞。但正如他所說的:『要把注意力放在甜甜圈上,而不是那個洞上。』今天是個美麗的日子,陽光燦爛,天空湛藍。」1月20日本是他迎來79歲生日的日子,他的家人邀請大家在這一天太平洋標準時區中午12點,共同參加為期10分鐘的全球集體冥想。 「無論我們身在何處,讓我們一起聚集,通過傳播和平與愛來紀念他的遺產。請利用這段時間來冥想、反思,並向宇宙傳遞正能量。 感謝你們成為這場慶祝他生命的活動的一部分。」

多位曾合作的影壇名人紛紛表達了他們對這位鬼才導演離世的哀悼,Steven Spielberg說:「我在《The Fabelmans》中認識了飾演John Ford的David。他是我心目中的英雄之一——David Lync飾演了我心目中的另一位英雄。這太超現實了,彷彿是David自己電影中的一幕。世界將失去如此原創且獨特的聲音。他的電影已經經受住了時間的考驗,並將永遠如此。」影史經典《Mulholland Drive》主演Naomi Watts發文說:「影響我的不只是他的藝術,他的智慧、幽默和愛讓我對自己產生前所未有的特殊信念。我們在一起的每一刻,我都強烈感覺到一種我從未見過或甚少了解過的存在。也許是因為,是的,他似乎生活在一個不同的世界裡,我為自己能成為其中的一小部分而感到無比幸運。David透過他精湛的敘事技巧,邀請所有人窺探這個世界,讓電影獲得了提升,激勵了全球一代又一代的電影人。」

下面,讓我們一起重溫這位偉大的當代導演一些啟發人心的智慧之語:

1. “Every idea that you fall in love with is a gift. How the ideas come is the trick.”

「每一個你愛上的想法都是一份禮物。想法是如何產生的,這才是關鍵。」

2.”Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”

「盯著甜甜圈,而非甜甜圈的洞。」

3.”I say negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you’re filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas. It’s like we have a conduit that ideas flow through. Negativity squeezes this conduit. When we transcend we are diving into a field of unbounded creativity. This is real creativity and when we experience that and grow in that, we can more easily find solutions to problems. We can get ideas for whatever it is we’re working on. And we will get happier by transcending every day and we will find that we’re happier doing almost anything. We’ll get more energy to do our work.

「我認為消極是創造力的敵人。例如,如果你充滿抑鬱,甚至連起床都很困難,更不用說有心情去創造甚麼了。如果你充滿苦澀、自私的憤怒,這會佔據你的思維,幾乎沒有空間留給創意。就像我們有一條管道,想法通過這條管道流動。消極會壓縮這條管道。當我們超越時,我們就像潛入一個無邊無際的創造力領域。這才是真正的創造力,當我們體驗到這一點並在其中成長時,我們能更輕鬆地找到問題的解決方案。我們能獲得關於我們正在做的任何事情的想法。每天超越自我,我們會變得更快樂,並且會發現自己在做幾乎任何事情時都會更快樂。我們會獲得更多的精力來完成工作。」

4.”In a way failure is a beautiful thing, because when the dust settles there’s nowhere to go but up, and it’s a freedom. You can’t lose more, but you can gain.”

「在某種程度上,失敗是一件美好的事情,因為當塵埃落定後,唯一的出路就是向上,這是一種自由。你無法再失去更多,但你可以獲得。」

ROME, ITALY - NOVEMBER 04: (EDITORS NOTE: This image has been converted in black and white) David Lynch walks the red carpet during the 12th Rome Film Fest at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on November 4, 2017 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

ROME, ITALY - NOVEMBER 04: (EDITORS NOTE: This image has been converted in black and white) David Lynch walks the red carpet during the 12th Rome Film Fest at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on November 4, 2017 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

5.”Desiring an idea is like bait on a hook. You can pull them in. If you catch an idea that you love, that’s a beautiful day, and you write it down. That idea might just be a fragment of the whole, but now you have even more bait. Thinking about that small fragment, that little fish will bring in more. Pretty soon you may have a script.”

「渴望一個想法就像魚鉤上的餌。你可以把它們拉進來。如果你捕捉到一個你喜愛的想法,那就是美好的一天,你會把它寫下來。這個想法可能只是整體的一個片段,但現在你有了更多的餌。思考那個小片段,那條小魚會帶來更多。很快你可能就會有一個劇本。」

6.”Even in the so-called dark things, there’s a beauty. It can be foreboding, but there is also something else in there that’s bigger. It’s truthful.”

「即使在所謂的黑暗事物中,也存在著一種美。它可能令人感到不安,但其中也有更大的東西。這是誠實的。」

7. “Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”

「荒謬是我在生活中最喜歡的東西,而在無知中掙扎也有幽默感。如果你看到一個男人不斷地撞牆,直到變成血肉模糊,過了一段時間你會覺得好笑,因為這變得荒謬。」

8. “Be true to yourself. Find your own voice and be true to that voice. Never take a bad idea, but never turn down a good idea. And, of course, have final cut.”

「忠於自己。找到自己的聲音,並忠於那個聲音。永遠不要接受壞主意,但也永遠不要拒絕好主意。當然,最終剪輯權在你手中。 」

9. “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.”

「想法就像魚。如果你想捕捉小魚,你可以待在淺水區。但如果你想捕捉大魚,你就必須深入水底。在深處,魚更強大、更純粹。它們巨大而抽象,並且非常美麗。」

10. “I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad but it’s not devastating if you think like that. Otherwise I don’t see how anybody could ever, once they see someone die, that they’d just disappear forever and that’s what we’re all bound to do. I’m sorry but it just doesn’t make any sense, it’s a continuum, and we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.”

「我相信生命是一個連續體,沒有人真正死去,他們只是放下了自己的肉體,我們都會再次相遇,就像那首歌所說的。這很悲傷,但如果你這樣想,就不會感到毀滅性的悲痛。否則,我不明白一旦看到某人死去,怎麼會認為他們就會永遠消失,而這正是我們都注定要經歷的。我很抱歉,但這根本沒有意義,這是一個連續體,我們在故事的結尾都會好好的。」