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| Quotes About David Lynch |
| Quote: "Jimmy Stewart from Mars." Who said/wrote it: Mel Brooks Quote: "He brings out the best in you, though the best doesn't have to be the good. The best can be the dark side, too." Who said/wrote it: Naomi Watts Quote: "David follows his scripts very closely. I rely heavily on the scripts because I don't always know what the hell is going on in the beginning, to tell you the truth. But the beautiful part about working in post with David is that one has the time to discover all the layers and go deep into his world. I never know where the point is when I've entered into the world of the film and know where I'm going and what he's doing. It is usually an unremarkable passage, but all of a sudden I just understand." Who said/wrote it: Mary Sweeney Quote: "Very few people know that he´s so funny." Who said/wrote it: Laura Harring Quote: "You feel David in his movies - it's another universe he takes you to it's an alternate reality but it's close enough to our own that it's scary." Who said/wrote it: Patricia Arquette Quote: "He builds an intense atmosphere, and sort of by proxy a kind of a trust is built up where people are completely willing to give themselves over to him, and I think that that´s one of his successes. He gets amazing performances out of people and incredibly courageous performances. You know, a lot of directors are technicians. They know how to finish on time, they know how to move a camera around the room, they know how to make up this crazy angle. David knows how to behave around people." Who said/wrote it: Justin Theroux Quote: "He says just a few words to me, and I'm able to translate that. Basically, he talks and it turns into music. It sounds a bit corny but it's not." Who said/wrote it: Angelo Badalamenti Quote: "You think that with all those intense, dark, twisted characters, he's going to be a broody, intense guy, but he's just the complete opposite. He could not have been more open, charming, affable. Working with him becomes like a game, and it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of trust." Who said/wrote it: Naomi Watts Quote: "It's great when somebody breaks rules and says, "You know what? There doesn't have to be an answer to this. You don't have to have a fourth wall, you don't have to have any boundaries." Who said/wrote it: Patricia Arquette Quote: "He doesn't have all the accouterments of other directors, the Dockers and Prada shoes. When you're around him, it's sort of like hanging around a painter. He's got that kind of a mood. He obviously has complete and total control over his set, but a lot directors make a big show of having that control and they can indulge in that when they're pretending to deflect it." Who said/wrote it: Justin Theroux Quote: "To me he's the most normal person. More normal than normal. But when he starts talking and says 'I'll be ding-danged!' you think he's making it up. He's not! He's trapped in a different era. I believe he still thinks we're in the 50s." Who said/wrote it: Laura Harring Quote: "Most people have strange thoughts, but they rationalize them. David doesn't translate his images logically, so they remain raw, emotional. Whenever I ask him where his ideas come from, he says it's like fishing. He never knows what he's going to catch." Who said/wrote it: Isabella Rossellini Quote: "I truly thought he would be some sort of creepy recluse living on a hill with lightning bolts hitting his house every 10 minutes. But he's not like that at all. He's funny and calm, with a Midwestern sensibility, who makes these incredible movies." Who said/wrote it: Justin Theroux Quote: "It becomes a bit like a game. The odd thing about it is, you're working in a completely different way than you've been trained as an actor. In terms of setting up a character, those questions that all your techniques teach you are incredibly important - where the characters came from, where they're going, why, and what it all means. David is asking you to strip that away. He comes and whispers something to you, and everything else disappears. I call him my horse whisperer." Who said/wrote it: Naomi Watts Quote: "We've been asked if we have a shorthand, in fact we have a remarkable one. I'm sure he has it with the other actors he works with, but for me, I have the ability from knowing him since I was seventeen, separate from who he is as a director to me, to intuit what he means, and he can intuit what I'm going to express before it happens. So it's not just what the movie's about, or the character I'm playing, but even as an operator, a cinematographer, I felt like David moved his body and camera just into place just as I was thinking of moving that way. You know there's that thing that happens…" Who said/wrote it: Laura Dern Quote: "Luckily, David is able to vent everything through his art ... because otherwise somebody might be dead." Who said/wrote it: Jack Fisk Quote: "I would die to work with David Lynch." Who said/wrote it: Maggie Cheung Quote: "He's the person you trust enough to go into a strange world with." Who said/wrote it: Kyle MacLachlan |
Movie/TV title: Blue Velvet
Movie/TV title: Eraserhead
Movie/TV title: The Elephant Man
Movie/TV title: Mulholland Dr.
Movie/TV title: Lost Highway
Movie/TV title: Wild at Heart 
Movie/TV title: "Twin Peaks"
Movie/TV title: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Movie/TV title: Inland Empire
Movie/TV title: Dune