Quotes from Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

A traveller learns more than a passenger.

we have two families in life. The one we're born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give its blood for us.

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

Look, dudes, we didn't come this far down the rabbit hole to stop on the one-yard line in the middle of like Nazi headquarters," said Nick. "Did we?" "No, but if you tried, you could probably mix a few more metaphors," said Elise.

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #10: WHEN VISITING A FOREIGN LAND, IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO OBSERVE AND ABIDE BY THE CUSTOMS OF THE LOCAL CULTURE. UNLESS THEY'RE TRYING TO EAT YOU.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #5: HEALING TAKES MUCH LONGER THAN YOU THINK. THE BIGGEST SCARS YOU CARRY AREN'T THE ONES YOU CAN SEE.

Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #7: SOMETIMES, IN ORDER TO GET COMPLETELY SANE, YOU HAVE TO GO A LITTLE CRAZY.

Diane, I've never asked you this before, and as a general rule I try never to mix my private and public life, but I would consider a great honor if you would consider having dinner with me. If this in any way crosses over a line that we have long ago set for our relationship, I will understand. If not, how does eight o'clock sound?

Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!