Quotes from Jack Nance

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.