David Lynch Net Worth

David Lynch Net Worth is
$60 Million

David Lynch Biography

Who’s David Lynch: David Keith Lynch can be an American film director, tv director, visual artist, musician, painter, screen article writer actor, and author who’s known for his surrealist films which have a distinctive cinematic design. When he was developing up, he was shifting from one state to some other. His personal quotes have become inspiring aswell. He became a member of the Boy Scouts and positioned highest rank of Eagle Scout. He still works such as a son and has preserved his health perfectly by using regular exercise. He is definitely absolutely spot on along with his function in Television shows and movies plus some of them will be the Alphabet, The Gr, mom, Dune, Wild in mind, The Straight Tale, Crumb, I Don, Mulholl and Drive’t Find out Jack. Interesting Facts: Despite the fact that his movies aren’t box workplace hits, his net worthy of is normally $60 million. In 1990, he done a street film called “Wild in mind”. He did many solo exhibition. The espresso aficionado has his very own brand of organic espresso known as “David Lynch Signature Glass.” Lynch directed a brief teaser video for Michael Jackson’s short movies collection, Dangerous. Personal Lifestyle: David had many romantic relationships. He wedded Peggy Lentz and acquired one child afterwards they got divorced. In 2006, his next reserve premiered called “Getting the Big Seafood”. He dated Isabella Rossellini as well. Also, he’s known for using occasionally violent components in his movies. David Lynch is mainly known for his surrealistic movies. They have collectively a daughter. Accomplishment: He directed several films. And they all had been nominated on extremely prestigious awards such as for example Academy awards, Golden World, Emmy awards, BAFTA awards, Cannes Flim Event where he received Golden Palm and Greatest Director Awards. Lynch shifted to LA and produced his 1st film Eraserhead in 1977. David Lynch net worthy of: David Lynch can be an American film and tv director who includes a net worthy of of $60 million. David Lynch most widely known for his surrealist movies. His creativity, fantasy imagery and meticulous audio design has been called “Lynchian”. David Keith Lynch was created in Missoula, Montana in January 1946. He’s popular for his exclusive and surreal film design. He started producing brief movies after learning painting in Philadelphia. He got Existence Profession Awards from Saturn Award and Golden Lion and Long term Film Event Digital Award in Venice Film Event. Then directed The Elephant Man in 1980 and began gathering popularity. The director was created in 1946 in Missoula, Montana. He offers been much more when compared to a director as he’s also a visible artist, author and actor. He then continued release a the films Shed Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire. In 1999, his next project premiered called “The Straight Tale”. He has been known with three Academy Award nominations for Greatest Director. He was awarded with a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Event for lifetime accomplishment. Lynch was awarded by the French federal government with the Legion of Honor, which may be the country’s best civilian honor. He’s a great individual as well. He provides released six of his very own studio albums and can be a painter and procedures meditation. Furthermore, David Lynch can be a musician. David Lynch can be a favorite and successful director. Moreover, he is a screenwriter, actor, writer and visual artist. It’s been reported that the quantity of David Lynch net well worth is really as high as 60 million dollars, by right now, making him among the richest people in the cinema sector. Thus, most of these involvements possess added up a great deal of revenues to the entire estimate of David Lynch net worthy of. Later he wedded actress Emily Stofle. He previously romantic relationship with Mary Sweeney and got one boy and split. He produced the film Dune in 1984 and Blue Velvet in 1986. He obtained a huge achievement after he directed a biographical film in regards to a deformed guy, titled The Elephant Man (1980). In 1994, David Lynch published his publication called “Images”. It had been also there, where he began to create short movies. Then, David Lynch shifted to LA. In 1977, David Lynch worked as a maker of his initial film known as “Eraserhead”.Born to a middle-class family members in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood vacationing around america, before going to study painting in the Pennsylvania Academy of Good Arts in Philadelphia, where he 1st made the changeover to producing short movies. In 1984, David Lynch done the film, which became failing, called “Dune”. 2 yrs later on, he released “Blue Velvet”. The film became quite controversial due to his violent component use however the critics praised it a whole lot. Thus, most of these films not merely made his name even more known but also added up to the present size of David Lynch net worthy of. After that, David Lynch became referred to as a creator of 1 of the very most popular Television series, known as “Twin Peaks”. Most of these productions possess added up a whole lot of revenues to the full total estimate of David Lynch net worthy of, aswell. In 1992, David Lynch created a cinematic prequel to it known as “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”. Could be he is obtaining royalties from Elephant Man and Twin Peaks. He had taken to the web and started producing online series including Rabbits and Dumbland. In 2011, he released his initial solo album known as “Crazy Clown Period”. David Lynch has generated some web-based projects known as “Rabbits” and “DumbLand”. The series aired in the time of 1990-1991 and so are scheduled to air once again in 2017. Furthermore to his profession in the cinema sector, David Lynch provides been showing up as a musician. Furthermore, David Lynch made three movies predicated on ‘dream logic’, which acquired nonlinear narrative structures, these movies being known as “Mulholland Drive”, “Inland Empire” and “Shed Highway”. 2 yrs later, his following album premiered called “The Big Desire”. David Lynch has generated the David Lynch Basis, the purpose of which is to invest in and support the teaching of Transcendental Meditation in colleges. Ultimately, David Lynch enrolled to review painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Good Arts in Philadelphia. Once again married Mary Fisk, separated and had one young child. His height is 5 feet 11 inches. Consequently, most of these involvements possess increased his net well worth, aswell. $60 Million: David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) can be an American director, screenwriter, visible artist, musician, actor, and writer. Known for his surrealist movies, he has developed a distinctive cinematic design. The surreal and, oftentimes, violent components contained within his movies have been recognized to ‘disturb, offend or mystify’ audiences. 3 years later on, another creation of his premiered, called “The Elephant Guy”, that was a biographical film in regards to a deformed guy called Joseph Merrick. He transferred to LA, where he created his first film, the surrealist horror film Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult traditional on the midnight film circuit, Lynch was utilized to immediate a biographical film in regards to a deformed guy, Joseph Merrick, titled The Elephant Guy (1980), that he gained mainstream achievement. As of this age, he has recently got the tag of a legend which proves how great his profession has been. He is a wonderful film director and his function is out of the world. Lynch provides directed music movies for Chris Isaak, Moby, and Nine Inch Fingernails. In a change to tv he and Tag Frost made the murder mystery present Twin Peaks in 1990. He’s none various other than the talented and incredibly humble David Lynch. He was created in the entire year 1946 on 20th of January which makes his age 69 at the moment. He was then utilized by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, and proceeded to create two movies: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which became a crucial and commercial failing, and a neo-noir criminal offense film, Blue Velvet (1986), that was critically acclaimed. He was created in a location called Missoula, which is based on Montana of United states. As he was created in America, it really is quite apparent that his nationality is definitely American. According for some resources his ethnicity is combined, Irish and since it is Scottish. Moreover, he offers directed a few Television commercials and music video clips. He has been extremely successful in his profession and this has provided him great revenue and an excellent net worth. According for some sources, he includes a staggering net worthy of of $60 million dollars. There are many well-known wiki sites such as for example Wikipedia that contain details on him. His legendary biography provides so much to provide for youngsters. Early Lifestyle (Childhood): Lynch transferred many states along with his family members. He once quoted, “This whole world is crazy in mind and weird at the top.” His rates have generally defined the truth and so are extremely intellectual. Some stupid people pass on hoaxes of him getting dead nonetheless it was ridiculous and he’s still alive. He was thinking about paintings and drawing therefore he joined College of the Museum of Great Arts, Boston and afterwards enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Great Arts, where he produced short films. Discussing his impact in social media sites, he’s active in Twitter however, not energetic in Instagram. He includes a jaw dropping 2.52 million followers in Twitter which proves how popular he has been around the site. He has recently tweeted in the website more than 780 situations till today. Discussing his personal lifestyle, he was dating his girlfriend Emily Stofle prior to the couple made a decision to get wedded. The couple got wedded in the entire year 2009 and till right now they go strong as couple. There is quite less likelihood of a divorce that occurs in their lives. He’s not really gay as he offers children. He includes a total of four kids and their titles are Jennifer Lynch, Austin Jack Lynch, Riley Lynch and the last one is definitely Lula Boginia Lynch. He’s not dating other people or having a girlfriend at the moment. However, this is simply not his first relationship as he offers been married so often before. He wedded Mary Fisk in the entire year 1977 but unfortunately their relationship finished in a divorce in the entire year 1987. Ditto happened along with his romantic relationship with Peggy Lynch and Mary Sweeney. He studied film producing at the AFI Conservatory.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	David Lynch
Net Worth	$60 Million
Date Of Birth	January 20, 1946
Height	1.8 m
Profession	Screenwriter, Film Score Composer, Television producer, Film producer, Voice Actor, Author, Film director, Painter, Film Editor, Cinematographer, Television Director
Education	AFI Conservatory, Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
Nationality	American
Spouse	Emily Stofle (m. 2009), Mary Sweeney (m. 2006–2007), Mary Fisk (m. 1977–1987), Peggy Lynch (m. 1967–1974)
Children	Jennifer Lynch, Austin Jack Lynch, Riley Lynch, Lula Boginia Lynch
Parents	Edwina Lynch, Donald Walton Lynch
Siblings	Martha Lynch, John Lynch
Partner	Isabella Rossellini
Facebook	http://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial
Twitter	http://www.twitter.com/david_lynch
Awards	Palme d'Or, Cannes Best Director Award, Saturn Award, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Bodil Award for Best American Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film, Independent Spirit Special Distinction Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, European Film Award for Best Non-European Film, Robert Award for Best American Film, Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film - English Language, National Society of Film Critics Experimental Film Award
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series, Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Movies	Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Inland Empire, Dune, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, The Straight Story, The Short Films of David Lynch, The Grandmother, Rabbits, Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), DumbLand, Industrial Symphony No. 1, Darkened Room, Lady Blue Shanghai, Lumière and Company, Absurda, The Amputee, Pilot, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Idem Paris, Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com, To Each His Own Cinema, Duran Duran: Unstaged, Great Directors, Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, Meditation, Creativity, Peace, Nadja, Zelly and Me, A Fall from Grace, The 3 Rs, Boat, Mulholland Dr., Ronnie Rocket, Abel Cain, King Shot, The King of Ads, The Alphabet, Bug Crawls, The French as Seen By..., I Don't Know Jack, The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Lucky
TV Shows	Hotel Room, On the Air, Twin Peaks, American Chronicles



Interesting Facts

#	Fact
1	At the 1986 Montreal Film Festival, where Blue Velvet first premiered, he met Giulietta Masina, wife & frequent muse of Federico Fellini, one of his favorite film directors.
2	In the late 1980s, he directed 4 TV commercials for Calvin Klein's Obsession perfume based on excerpts from novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Gustave Flaubert and featuring Benicio Del Toro, Heather Graham, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Marshall, Rodney Harvey and Ian Buchanan.
3	Disowned Dune (1984), considering it the only real failure of his career. To this day, he refuses to talk about the production in great detail, and has refused numerous offers to work on a special edition DVD. Lynch claims revisiting the film would be too painful an experience to endure.
4	Was asked to direct Manhunter (1986).
5	Sheryl Lee credits him as one of the most incredible teachers that she's ever had in terms of filmmaking.
6	Lodz, Poland. Discussing his plans for building post production film studio in an old factory on Targowa street. [May 2004]
7	In 2002, Lynch paid $1 million to spend a month studying Transcendental Meditation along with a few other well-heeled adherents in a compound in the Netherlands with the movement's founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Maharishi was living in the house, but only communicated with the group via TV conferencing.
8	Has three siblings, including brother John Lynch.
9	Among the places he lived in his rootless childhood were Missoula, Montana (his birth place), Sandpoint, Idaho (where his family moved when he was only 2 months old), Spokane, Washington, Durham, North Carolina, Boise, Idaho and Alexandria, Virginia (where he attended high school).
10	Has said that he is an admirer of Ronald Reagan, and supported the Natural Law Party in the 2000 Presidential Election. In both the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections, he supported Barack Obama.
11	Directed 3 actors in Oscar nominated performances: John Hurt, Diane Ladd, and Richard Farnsworth.
12	His ancestry is Finnish, German and Irish. His Irish Ancestry can be traced to Galway and as far back as being descended from Rollo, a Viking King.
13	Has worked with real-life father-son pair José Ferrer and Miguel Ferrer in Dune (1984) and Twin Peaks (1990); and real-life mother-daughter pair Diane Ladd and Laura Dern in Wild at Heart (1990) and Blue Velvet (1986).
14	The car accident scene in Wild at Heart (1990) came from his impression of actress Sherilyn Fenn as a china doll, and from the idea of seeing a porcelain doll breaking. He told her, "I envisioned this broken China doll, all bloody, and ranting and raving, and it was you".
15	He was so impressed by Sheryl Lee's performance as the dead Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990)' pilot episode that he wrote the role of Maddy Ferguson for her, in order to bring her back in the series.
16	Sherilyn Fenn, who worked with him in Twin Peaks (1990) and Wild at Heart (1990), later starred in his daughter Jennifer Lynch's directorial debut Boxing Helena (1993).
17	Some of his favorite films of all time are: 8½ (1963), La Strada (1954), Sunset Blvd. (1950), The Apartment (1960), Lolita (1962), Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Stroszek (1977) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
18	Frequently works with Crispin Glover.
19	Born to Donald Lynch, a research scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his wife Sunny, an English language tutor.
20	Served as an usher at the Presidential Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (20 January 1961).
21	Although having planned to study with painter Oskar Kokoschka in Austria for three years, he returned to the US after only 15 days.
22	Has practiced Transcendental Meditation for at least 20 minutes each day since 1973. Now very actively leads his own worldwide organization, the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, that is the midst of a campaign to raise $7 billion to further its goals. As a result, Lynch has not made a film since 2006's Inland Empire (2006).
23	Being an avid coffee drinker, he has own line of special organic blends.
24	Is mentioned in German author Patrick Roth's short story "Lynch for Lunch" (2008).
25	Is friends with Mädchen Amick.
26	Claims one of his favorite films to be The Wizard of Oz (1939), and has many references to the classic in his films, the most obvious are in Wild at Heart (1990). He has also cited Vertigo (1958) and Glen or Glenda (1953) as his other favorites.
27	Was engaged to Italian actress Isabella Rossellini from 1986 to 1990.
28	Though on the surface his alliance with Mel Brooks on The Elephant Man (1980) would seem unlikely to many, a number of Lynch's films are interpreted as being satirical of traditional Hollywood clichés (Mulholland Dr. (2001), Wild at Heart (1990), Blue Velvet (1986) albeit in a much darker and artistic way than in the films that made Brooks a success (Young Frankenstein (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), etc.).
29	His grandmother was German.
30	He was introduced to Isabella Rossellini at a restaurant by a mutual friend when he was in the process of casting Blue Velvet (1986). Struck by her serene European beauty, he told her, "You could be Ingrid Bergman's daughter." 'You idiot,' my friend said to me," Lynch recalled, "'she is Ingrid Bergman's daughter!'"
31	Is friends with Kyle MacLachlan.
32	Was very good friends with Jack Nance.
33	He was offered the chance to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), but he turned it down, saying that the script was funny, but it wasn't his thing.
34	Is famous (or infamous) for not saying anything on Eraserhead (1977). He lets the viewers decide what it means.
35	President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
36	He drew and wrote the comic strip, "The Angriest Dog in the World" that ran in the Los Angeles Reader newspaper throughout the 1980s.
37	Announced at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival that he has been shooting a feature length project on digital video called Inland Empire (2006) for over a year. He also announced that he was so impressed with digital that he was giving up directing projects on film.
38	In addition to excluding chapter breaks in his approved DVD releases of his movies, he hasn't recorded an audio commentary in any of his films. This is because he believes that films speak for themselves.
39	Has cited Luis Buñuel, Werner Herzog, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, and Roman Polanski as some of his influences.
40	Insisted his name be struck from the 190-minute Extended Cut of Dune (1984), which was prepared specially for television. That version credits the pseudonymous "Judas Booth" as writer/director. Yet in 2009 - the movie's 25th anniversary - Lynch (by a fan's request) actually signed Booth's name to a vintage "Making of Dune (1984) paperback at West Hollywood's famous Book Soup.
41	Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985," pp. 621-626 (as David K. Lynch). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
42	He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia
43	His son, Austin Jack Lynch, appeared in an episode of Twin Peaks (1990) as Pierre Tremond, or the Creamed-Corn Kid. The role (billed as Pierre Tremond/Chalfont) went to Jonathan J. Leppell in the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). It is widely rumored that Jonathan is Lynch's nephew, but Jonathan and his mother had never heard of Lynch or the TV show when he was cast in Seattle. Julee Cruise, who appears in Twin Peaks (1990), is his musical protégée. Lynch wrote the lyrics on her first album, some of the lyrics of her second album, and occasionally plays an instrument on her recordings.
44	While in college, roomed with Peter Wolf, former lead singer with the J. Geils Band. Lynch kicked him out, however, because he thought Wolf was "too weird."
45	Daughter, Director Jennifer Lynch (b. 1968), with first wife actress Peggy Lynch. Son, Austin Jack Lynch (b. 1982), with second wife Mary Fisk. Son, Riley Lynch (b. 1992), with film editor Mary Sweeney (she later became his third wife).
46	After George Lucas saw Eraserhead (1977), he offered Lynch the chance to direct Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) but Lynch turned him down. Lynch felt the film would be more Lucas's vision than his own.
47	After the financial disaster that was Dune (1984), Lynch and Dino De Laurentiis were almost ready to part company but Lynch showed Dino the script for Blue Velvet (1986), which he had been working on for some time, and the two combined talents to make the seminal 1986 classic.
48	Wrote the Gordon Cole character (from Twin Peaks (1990)) with himself in mind.
49	Producer Dino De Laurentiis offered him the chance to direct "Hand-Carved Coffins" based on a Truman Capote work, but Lynch turned it down; to date the project has not been produced.
50	Projects he has written but to date has not produced include "Ronnie Rocket," "Up at the Lake," and "One Saliva Bubble."
51	He is also an artist working in paint and such dynamic elements as live ants and rotting flesh. He also frequently designs and builds the furniture in his films. These can be seen in the documentary about him, Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997).
52	Personally approved DVD releases of his movies do not have any chapter stops. This is done because he believes that films are meant to be viewed from beginning to end.
53	Currently (2002) runs his own personally authorized Web site, www.davidlynch.com and has been rumored to appear in the chat area of the site under a more than obvious name.
54	His father had Scottish, Irish, and English ancestry. His mother was of half Finnish and half German descent. His Irish ancestry can be traced to Galway and as far back as being descended from Rollo, a Viking King.
55	Is an Eagle Scout.
56	Ate lunch at Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles, California, nearly every day for almost eight years in a row.



Net Worth & Salary

Title	Salary
The Alphabet (1968)	$1,000



Trademarks

#	Trademark
1	Frequently wiggles his fingers while he is talking
2	Very heavy use of black and dark lighting in order to augment colorful objects in scenes.
3	Never explains the meaning of his movies
4	Many of his films examine the dark side of American suburbia.
5	Films are often sexually charged and graphically violent
6	Quirky, nasal voice
7	Close up shots of eyes
8	Uses Roy Orbison songs in his films
9	Constant references to dreams as a way of connecting the plot and twists in his films.
10	Uses many references to France, the French language, culture, people, and names.
11	Almost always casts a musician for a supporting role: Sting in Dune (1984); Chris Isaak, David Bowie, Julee Cruise, and 'Miguel Ferrer' (son and former drummer of Rosemary Clooney in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); Marilyn Manson and Henry Rollins in Lost Highway (1997); Billy Ray Cyrus, Rebekah Del Rio and Angelo Badalamenti in Mulholland Dr. (2001). Regular collaborator Kyle MacLachlan is also descended from composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
12	Red curtains, strobe lights, and extreme surrealism
13	Use of slow-motion during key scenes of violence
14	Has a taste for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rotting environments, distorted characters, a polarized world (angels vs demons, Madonnas vs whores), and debilitating damage to the skull or brain.
15	Finds small-town USA fascinating
16	Has frequently cast Jack Nance, Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee,Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Sherilyn Fenn, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael J. Anderson, Everett McGill, Frances Bay, Dean Stockwell, David Patrick Kelly, Brad Dourif, Catherine E. Coulson, Grace Zabriskie, Ian Buchanan, Alicia Witt, and Bellina Logan.



Quotes

#	Quote
1	I like the idea that everything has a surface which hides much more underneath. Someone can look very well and have a whole bunch of diseases cooking: there are all sorts of dark, twisted things lurking down there. I go down in that darkness and see what's there. Coffee shops are nice safe places to think. I like sitting in brightly lit places where I can drink coffee and have some sugar. Then, before I know it, I'm down under the surface gliding along; if it becomes too heavy, I can always pop back into the coffee shop.
2	[on being asked if he takes drugs] Yes, I eat a tremendous amount of sugar!
3	Every idea that you fall in love with is a gift. How the ideas come is the trick.
4	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.
5	I'm in a transition. I am painting, and I am painting over and then painting, and then painting over, and destroying, and painting, and destroying, and painting over.
6	I always give credit to Angelo Badalamenti for bringing me into the world of music.
7	I say Eraserhead (1977) is my The Philadelphia Story (1940). I like smoke and fire and the sounds of the factories.
8	Dune (1984) I didn't have final cut on. It's the only film I've made where I didn't have, I didn't technically have final cut on The Elephant Man (1980) but Mel Brooks gave it to me, and on Dune (1984) the film, I started selling out even in the script phase knowing I didn't have final cut, and I sold out, so it was a slow dying- the-death and a terrible terrible experience. I don't know how it happened, I trusted that it would work out but it was very naive and, the wrong move. In those days the maximum length they figured I could have is two hours and seventeen minutes, and that's what the film is, so they wouldn't lose a screening a day, so once again it's money talking and not for the film at all and so it was like compacted and it hurt it, it hurt it. There is no other version. There's more stuff, but even that is putrefied.
9	I started selling out on Dune (1984). Looking back, it's no one's fault but my own. I probably shouldn't have done that picture, but I saw tons and tons of possibilities for things I loved, and this was the structure to do them in. There was so much room to create a world. But I got strong indications from Raffaella and Dino De Laurentiis of what kind of film they expected, and I knew I didn't have final cut.
10	[on Eraserhead (1977)] Then we showed it to a guy who was a friend of Terrence Malick - his financial backer, I think. Terry was trying to help me get some money and he said, 'I want to show some scenes to this man, maybe he'll help you.' But Terry had not seen anything. So we organized several scenes, and this man came in and sat down and I was, you know, trembling. I was at the console with Al [sound designer Alan Splet] And in the middle of this thing the man stood up and screamed: 'PEOPLE DON'T ACT LIKE THAT! PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT! THIS IS BULLSHIT!' And out he went. But, like, really upset. And Ron, the projectionist upstairs, heard this and everybody was just looking at each other. so I thought, 'Man!', you know, 'This is gonna be really difficult!' [from "Lynch on Lynch": revised edition, page 82]
11	[2008 interview] Now if you're playing a movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
12	An inner anger is poison. A person who is angry is poisoning them self and poisoning the environment.
13	There's a comfort when you realize your ideas are realized. You've worked so that all the elements are working together and it feels complete and correct and you say it's done. Then it goes out into the world, but it doesn't need any more explanation. It is what it is. Cinema is such a beautiful language [but] as soon as people finish a film, people want you to turn it into words. It's kind of a sadness for me: the words are limiting.
14	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.
15	It's thrilling for me to play an electric guitar. I like to think of it as a gasoline-powered engine. Running rough, with a loud muffler.
16	I loved smoking cigarettes as a child. I loved matches. I loved lighting matches.
17	Sometimes when you pass a house and you see that the door's closed, the window blinds are closed, you wonder what's going on in there. We all get feelings from places. Some feelings are happy feelings, and some don't put out such happy feelings. There seems to be something more.
18	[on 'Richard Farnsworth' in The Straight Story (1999)] A lot of times people say someone was born to play a certain role. If there was ever a case for that, this is it. The film hangs on his performance. There's nobody who could have done it like he did. He has a quality, which is in all the films he's been in, that just makes you want to instantly love this guy. He fits the definition of an actor - a person who makes something real.
19	[on The Straight Story (1999)] Some people still wait for something very bad to happen in the movie. Also, somebody was standing in line for a preview screening and a lady behind them said, 'Isn't it odd that there are two directors named David Lynch.'
20	[on The Straight Story (1999)] I wanted the film to have a floating feeling. I particularly wanted that quality to come through in the aerial landscape shots, and it took a lot of explaining to get the helicopter pilots to slow down enough to get the look I was after.
21	People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.
22	I was driving through Central Park with Kyle MacLachlan and on the radio came Crying by Roy Orbison. I started listening to this song and I'm thinking only of Blue Velvet (1986) and I'm thinking this song could appear in the film. Once we were filming in Virginia, I ask for Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits and I hear In Dreams and boom! An explosion goes off in my head. And I think, "This is it." Dennis [Hopper] was supposed to sing that and Dean Stockwell was supposed to listen but Dennis couldn't remember the lines. And I thought, "Wait a minute, Dean will sing and Dennis will listen." It was a magical thing.
23	[on actress Sherilyn Fenn] She's a mysterious girl and I think that actresses like her who have a mystery - where there's something hiding beneath the surface - are the really interesting ones. (Premiere UK, July 1993)
24	[on actress Joan Chen] She's the best thing from China since pasta - and much more beautiful. (People, May 04, 1992)
25	[on Eyes Wide Shut (1999)] I really love Eyes Wide Shut. I just wonder if Stanley Kubrick really did finish it the way he wanted to before he died.
26	[remarking about Elvis Presley's reported comment to one of his backup singers that he thought no one would remember him] That's incredible. Elvis swims in our minds, and in the emotions all through time.
27	[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I love that film. I say now that The Straight Story (1999) is my most experimental movie, but up until then, "Fire Walk With Me" was my most experimental film, and some of the things, the combos, you know, like, sequences . . . It was a dark film, but like Peggy Lipton said in an interview, it was just too much in people's faces, and it didn't have the humor of Twin Peaks (1990). So it was what it was supposed to be, but it wasn't what people wanted. It was supposed to be stand-alone, but it was also supposed to be the last week of Laura Palmer's life. And all those things that had been established, they could be pleasant on one level to experience, but unpleasant on another level.
28	[on Sheryl Lee and her performance in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] It turns out, at least in my opinion, she's an unbelievable actress and there are things that she's done in this movie that are truly incredible. I haven't seen too many people get into a role and give it as much. So, the big news for me was this person was hired to be a dead girl and turns out to be a great actress and a perfect Laura Palmer.
29	I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
30	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.
31	[on why his officially sanctioned DVDs contain no chapter stops] It is my opinion that a film is not like a book--it should not be broken up. It is a continuum and should be seen as such.
32	[on his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art] I intended to stay three years. Instead, I stayed 15 days! I remember lying in an Athens basement with lizards crawling along the walls and contemplating that I was 7,000 miles from McDonalds!
33	[on his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art] I didn't take to Europe. I was all the time thinking, "This is where I'm going to be painting". And there was no inspiration there at all for the kind of work I wanted to do.
34	My father was a scientist for the Forest Service. He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That's the kind of world I grew up in.
35	As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.
36	There was nothing much going on upstairs until the age of nineteen.
37	In a large city I realized there was a large amount of fear. Coming from the Northwest, it kind of hits you like a train.
38	[on actor Kyle MacLachlan]: "What do we do together? I have a pretty good cappuccino machine, and anytime he gets the urge, he comes on over. We talk about the problems associated with getting a good cup of coffee."
39	I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee--with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.
40	Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do...it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It's the key to some fantastic mystery of life.
41	Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.
42	There's something deeply satisfying about directing the flow of water.
43	My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.
44	I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.
45	Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.
46	I'm not sure what these people are saying. Is it that if you depicted no graphic violence, the world would calm down and there would be less violence? Or is it that if you sense certain things about violence and then portray those things in a film, does that make the violence go to another level? Or is the violence in films a way to experience something without having to do it in real life?
47	All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
48	I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.
49	I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream...allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.
50	[on plans to build 100 transcendental meditation centers to bring an end to crime and war]: "Peace could be on this Earth this year. It would be a whole new world."
51	I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
52	[His films] mean different things to different people. Some mean more or less the same things to a large number of people. It's okay. Just as long as there's not one message, spoon-fed. That's what films by committee end up being, and it's a real bummer to me . . . Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
53	I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
54	I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. And I think the mind isn't conscious enough to go all the way to where we're connected, but it's conscious of a certain amount of that territory. And when these ideas fly into the conscious part, then you can capture them. But if they're outside of the conscious part, you don't even know about them. So you just hope that you can make the conscious part of your mind bigger or that these ideas will fly into your airspace, so you can shoot them down and grab them and take them home. So that's all you try to do. Sometimes an idea will strike you when you're sitting in a quiet chair. But sometimes an idea will strike you when you're standing. Sometimes music will also help you. If I thought I could just sit still in a quiet place and get ideas, I would do that all the time, but sometimes nothing happens. There's no rhyme or reason to it. But you've got to write them down right away. I forget so many things. Then if I forget it and try to remember it, my whole day is ruined because I can't remember and I feel horrible. And I imagine that it was one of the all time great ideas. And it probably isn't.
55	In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what's so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can't, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say 'Did you understand that?' but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.
56	To give a sense of place, to me, is a thrilling thing. And a sense of place is made up of details. And so the details are incredibly important. If they're wrong, then it throws you out of the mood. And so the sound and music and color and shape and texture, if all those things are correct and a woman looks a certain way with a certain kind of light and says the right word, you're gone, you're in heaven. But it's all the little details.
57	It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.
58	I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
59	I sort of go by a duck when I work on a film because if you study a duck, you'll see certain things. You'll see a bill, and the bill is a certain texture and a certain length. Then you'll see a head, and the features on the head are a certain texture and it's a certain shape and it goes into the neck. The texture of the bill for instance is very smooth and it has quite precise detail in it and it reminds you somewhat of the legs. The legs are a little bit bigger and a little more rubbery but it's enough so that your eye goes back and forth. Now, the body being so big, it can be softer and the texture is not so detailed, it's just kind of a cloud. And the key to the whole duck is the eye and where the eye is placed. And it has to be placed in the head and it's the most detailed, and it's like a little jewel. And if it was fixed, sitting on the bill, it would be two things that were too busy, battling, they would not do so well. And if it was sitting in the middle of the body, it would get lost. But it's so perfectly placed to show off a jewel right in the middle of the head like that, next to this S-curve with the bill sitting out in front, but with enough distance so that the eye is very very very well secluded and set out. So when you're working on a film, a lot of times you can get the bill and the legs and the body and everything, but this eye of the duck is a certain scene, this jewel, that if it's there, it's absolutely beautiful. It's just fantastic." "Film exists because we can go and have experiences that would be pretty dangerous or strange for us in real life. We can go into a room and walk into a dream. If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things withing a film for the total experience.
60	It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.



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