David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything (2006)
Lynch's 70 scenes on 3X5 cards = 1 feature film.
For Lynch, ideas come from somewhere outside us, and our job is to tune into their channels. The imagination is a diving inward. Artistic invention is a matter of staying in the depths until you encounter something down there. It might be beautiful, or frightening, or absurd; but it comes to you. You... See more
For Lynch, ideas come from somewhere outside us, and our job is to tune into their channels. The imagination is a diving inward. Artistic invention is a matter of staying in the depths until you encounter something down there. It might be beautiful, or frightening, or absurd; but it comes to you. You... See more
Zettels June 2025
Let’s remember David Lynch, explaining on why he told stories the way he did.
https://t.co/2BT45gAVW0
cinesthetic.x.comLaura Dern's letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams
latimes.comDavid Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things,... See more