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

大衛·林奇（David Lynch），美國最具個人色彩的導演之一。1946年生於美國濛大拿州，兒時的夢想是成為書畫刻印藝術傢，但最著名的身份卻是導演。他的電影華麗而詭異，但主題隱晦壓抑，深具拉美魔幻小說的超現實主義氣質，代錶作如《穆赫蘭道》與《藍絲絨》等，都著力於日常生活遮掩下的人性荒誕與失控的展示，它們都是林奇觀察力與想象力的産物。在鏡頭背後，林奇首先是一個富有創見的旁觀者與思想傢。