Product Description
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

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 77 reviews)

A must have for the creative mind. by L. Ferguson (LA)

5 Stars
November 15, 2009
This book is everything I expected it to be. It is great to just pick up and read any chapter to feel inspired. You will get a glimpse into David Lynch's methods, imagination and meditation.

TM by Michael Faivre (New York, NY United States)

5 Stars
October 03, 2009
This book had me contacting the TM center to find out the nearest location to my house! Very inspiring!

A good read, particulary if you are a DL fan by bgm (Vandalia, OH United States)

4 Stars
July 25, 2009
As mentioned in many other reviews, this is not a how-to book on transcendental meditation. It was obvious before I got the book that that shouldn't be an expectation. Essentially, Lynch talks about how TM played a large role in his life and in his work. Fans of his movies will understand better after reading this book where his "deepness" comes from. If the book could've been better it would be in the area of talking about the "deepness" of his films. Not the meanings of his films, but just where he was going or coming from with some of his ideas. He explains why he doesn't explain to people what his movies mean, but he also doesn't explain his concepts of going from story-lines to complete surreality in his movies. I am sure it is to keep more people interested in the film, but it also seems to contradict his methods of "going deep."

It's a strange world... by J. C. Hanisko

3 Stars
May 15, 2009
Picked this book up for a steal at $5. It was more of a bargain than I'd imagined. I love Lynch's work but this book was not worth the $20 retail value. That said I though it made for a quirky little self-help read that left me feeling oddly warm about simple things in life.

Beautifully written, sparse book, very Lynchian, very good, and inspring... by Grigory's Girl (NYC)

5 Stars
May 02, 2009
David Lynch is a true American artist, one of the greatest filmmakers this country ever produced. I have seen every film he's made, and he's never made a really bad one (even Dune had some great moments). This book is a very spare book, but Lynch chooses and writes his words carefully, and he says a lot in its sparse prose. My favorite bits are the one about dead bodies (it's not as morbid as you might think), a part about how he disagrees you have to be unhappy if you're an artist (I agree with Lynch on that one), how the film industry is ruled by fear and that hurts creativity (amen, David!), the part when David talks about visiting a pyschiatrist (I won't divulge that one), the part about following intuition, seeing the doughnut, not just the hole, and only worrying about what you can control, not what you can't control. It's a wonderful book, and dare I say, inspiring book as well. Lynch really doesn't go into layers of intellectualising, which is good. Lynch's films really speak for themselves, and this book is a direct, beautifully written meditation on art, life, and being.

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