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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
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!
I let the actors work out their ideas before s... (more David Lynch quotes)
In the "Stories" feature on the Eraserhead DVD, Lynch mentions that he ate french fries and grilled cheese almost every day while on the set.
He is 5 feet, 11 inches tall.
David was very close friends with actor John Nance until Nance was murdered in 1996.
David had a solo exhibition at the Rodger La Pelle Galleries in Philadelphia in 1987.
From 1972-1976, David literally lived on the set of his film Eraserhead as he put all his time and money into the project.... (more David Lynch trivia)