We would appreciate some privacy at this time.
Theres a big hole in the world now that hes no longer with us.
But, as he would say, Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
David Lynch at his studio in Hollywood, 2002Chris Weeks/WireImage
Its a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.
His work delighted, mystified, and horrified viewers, and rarely offered easy answers.
(Lynch and Peggy later divorced; Lynch would marry three more times and have three more children.)
Lynch has described his time in Philadelphia as both terrifying and deeply inspirational.
Another house was robbed on multiple occasions, and once a boy was murdered down the block.
There was violence and hate and filth.
But the biggest influence in my whole life was that city.
It was, as Lynchput it, 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit.
Eraserheadwas finally released in 1977, earning mixed reviews, but becoming an underground midnight movie favoriite.
(The film, however, went home empty-handed.)
The Elephant Manimmediately made Lynch one of the most exciting new directors in Hollywood.
George Lucas even offered him the chance to directReturn of the Jedi, which Lynch declined.
In contrast, Lynchs next project,Blue Velvet, was fully his.
This is the way America is to me, Lynch said of the movie inLynch on Lynch.
Theres a very innocent, naive quality to life, and theres a horror and a sickness as well.
Its everything.Blue Velvetis a very American movie.
Lynchs next movie,Wild at Heart, arrived in 1990.
He was brave, brilliant, and a maverick with a joyful sense of humor.
I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch.
He will always be solid gold.
But it was Lynchs other 1990 project that left an even more indelible mark:Twin Peaks.
The whodunnit madeTwin Peaksan immediate sensation, but also arguably led to its demise.
And theres a part of me that thinks he may well have been right.
Its sort of like going back to a place where you grew up, Lynch toldRolling Stoneat the time.
You know your way around, even though things are a little different.
Memories come back and ideas come like that.
He clearly saw something in me that even I didnt recognize.
I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
He was my north star.
He watched me grow up, Amick wrote.
He watched me become a mother.
He cheered me on when I stepped into the directors chair.
I will hold those long conversations we had in his home on the hill very close to my heart.
(It also features one of the most terrifying jump scares in movie history.)
Youneverdo that to an audience, he said inLynch on Lynch.
Clues are beautiful because I believe were all detectives.
We mull things over, and we figure things out.
Were always working this way.
Peoples minds hold things and form conclusions with indications.
It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of Davids own movies.
The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice.
His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.
Hislast album,Cellophane Memories, with Chrystabell, arrived in 2024.
I dont want to see something so clearly that it would destroy an imaginary picture, he said.
Ilovethe process of going into a mystery.
