In 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

大卫·林奇（David Lynch），美国最具个人色彩的导演之一。1946年生于美国蒙大拿州，儿时的梦想是成为书画刻印艺术家，但最著名的身份却是导演。他的电影华丽而诡异，但主题隐晦压抑，深具拉美魔幻小说的超现实主义气质，代表作如《穆赫兰道》与《蓝丝绒》等，都着力于日常生活遮掩下的人性荒诞与失控的展示，它们都是林奇观察力与想象力的产物。在镜头背后，林奇首先是一个富有创见的旁观者与思想家。