Lynch Quotes

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

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

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

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

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

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

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

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 and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

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

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

When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

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.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.