All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
All those pictures are some of my favourite movies, and they've remade almost all of them and they aren't nearly as suspenseful as the originals.
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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.
But The Blob was just fun to do.
I always say, I hope David never discovers that he can make a picture without me because I might never work again.
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
The Howard Hawks version of The Thing, to me, was the scariest of the science fiction movies and the best of that whole genre.
To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
Jack's last on-screen appearance, Lost Highway (1997), also had the last feature film appearance of Richard Pryor.
Jack worked twice with Kyle MacLachlan, in Blue Velvet (1986) and later in Twin Peaks.
Jack appeared in the 1983 video for the punk group Suicidal Tendencies' song "Institutionalized."
Jack's ex-wife, Catherine Coulson, later starred with him as the "Log Lady" character on Twin Peaks.
Jack was working on an autobiographical screenplay, "A Derelict On All Fours," when he died.
Jack was good friends with Dennis Hopper, who helped him overcome his problems with alcoholism.
Jack was cast in every movie that director David Lynch made from Eraserhead (1978) until Lost Highway (1997), with the exception of The Elephant Man (1980).
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