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 shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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.
David sometimes goes into the chat area of his site under a different name to see what people think his movies are actually about.
David says his favorite band is Rammstein.
While in college, David roomed with Peter Wolf, the former lead singer of the J. Geils Band.
David attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA.
David actually drew and wrote the comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World that ran in the Los Angeles Reader newspaper throughout the 1980's.
David was once offered the chance to direct the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but he turned it down saying it wasn't for him.
He was an Eagle Scout.
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