David Lynch lashes out at crew for not letting him go dreamy

I’m going to claim that evil is what David Lynch’s movies are essentially about, and that Lynch’s explorations of human beings’ various relationships to evil are, if idiosyncratic and Expressionistic, nevertheless sensitive and insightful and true. I’m going to submit that the real “moral problem” a lot of us cinéastes have with Lynch is that we fi

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Herzog wrote my friend a long reply of ferocious challenge, in which he said, more or less, this: “Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy the films you make, and it’s certainly not the world’s obligation to pay for your dreams. Nobody wants to hear it. Steal a camera if y

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Werner Herzog talking about the pursuit of dreams will hype you up https://t.co/VPyga22J2Y

At dinner in Istanbul, Peter Weir said something like, “You know that feeling that you get between films in which you think, ‘Oh, I have no idea if I’m ever gonna be able to make a film again?’” There’s a desperate moment between movies where it’s almost despair. Am I gonna get another movie off the ground? Is this gonna happen? If I can finance it... See more