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This collection holds 67 david lynch quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Dana Ashbrook, Sheryl Lee and Hiro Murai.

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I'm a big David Lynch fan.

David Lynch helped me be cool.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.

But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

If David Lynch wants me to audition I will do it. But a young filmmaker, no. I won't.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's like a David Lynch movie.

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep.

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

I'm always a fan of the cliffhanger season finale. I recall the first season of 'Twin Peaks' - I'm a huge David Lynch fan - it was almost a takeoff of cliffhangers. They had around 20 of them happen in that finale.

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It's a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves.

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

I've been lucky to have opportunities with David Lynch in 'Lost Highway' and Jennifer Lynch in this movie 'Surveillance,' so I've always boomeranged around a little bit, and no one has caught my foot in the trap yet, but I think if I move fast enough... 'cos I think I got trapped a couple of times.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted someone in the room with me that I could look over and say, 'Can you believe we're watching this?'

Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

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