Quotes About David Lynch

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.

For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

If David Lynch wants me to audition I will do it. But a young filmmaker, no. I won't.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

I would have loved to have been in the room with the ABC executives when they watched David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' TV pilot. You know that had to be a long silence after that thing stopped.