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That was really my film school,
working on ""Eraserhead"".
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l loved that and l thought
that"s how everybody made movies.
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Then l went on and worked
with John Cassavetes for a while
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and l saw there was some similarity,
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but then l went on
to the big Hollywood movies
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and l"d show up and find out
that it wasn"t anything like ""Eraserhead"".
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l mean, in the rest of the world,
one guy didn"t do everything.
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l think that for David, making
the transition into big-time directing,
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was one of the things
that was hard for him:
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he couldn"t stir the chickens
on ""Dune"",
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somebody else had to do it, and
he learnt to let go and still stay in control.
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What David missed after a while
was not being able to make the pudding
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that filled the drawer
that you put the peas on top of
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for Henry Spencer to get
the vaporiser out of in ""Eraserhead"".
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But David didn"t do the pudding
any more, somebody else did it.
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Although, l have to say,
l did make the pudding on ""Eraserhead"".
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Figuring out how many boxes
of vanilla instant pudding it would take
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to fill a dresser drawer was
one of the challenges l got to undertake
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along with Doreen Small,
who worked on the film.
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We called ourselves
handmaidens to genius!
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l"ll make our cappuccino.
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lf you believe his interviews,
he had the idea for the red room.
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lt was just an image
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and he says he couldn"t sleep that night,
he was so excited.
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For him, it"s how to get the image
into the film,
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rather than the other way around.
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Most narrative film-makers begin
with the story and then illustrate it.
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l think he begins with an image.
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The story is secondary, it"s not primary.
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lf you"re asking the narrative question
with David Lynch
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or, what does this mean?
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l say,
maybe that"s the wrong question.
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Maybe you should go back
to the Dadaist appreciation
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of the image as image
and ask those questions first.
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lt seems to me you"re going
to get a lot more out of Lynch
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if you appreciate the image
and the primacy of the image.
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One thing about David is
that he doesn"t want to over-analyse,
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which is why he doesn"t enjoy
doing extensive interviews.
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Because something comes out
of a place in his mind that"s indescribable
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and l don"t think he likes to analyse
the process.
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Much of the success of his work
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has been because
he just creates something
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and puts it out there
and doesn"t analyse it.
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Lots of other people have, of course,
but he just is.
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l think Lynch is one of those artists
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that doesn"t put a lot of filters
between him and what he does.
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What he wants to do
is what he does.
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He doesn"t question it,
he doesn"t kind of censor himself,
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he doesn"t go through
a political correctness filter.
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What he comes up with
is what ends up on the screen.
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l think when you"re operating at that kind
of vulnerable, raw, intuitive level...
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...and all you"re trying to go by
is what excites you aesthetically,
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there"s the danger
that you will repeat yourself
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and that someone may tire of it.
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On the other hand,
what is your responsibility as an artist?
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ls your responsibility
to be worrying about,
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is this a repetition, what l"m doing,
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or should l just be responding
artistically to the world around me?
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l think one of the things
l learnt from him
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is how completely open
to every moment he is.
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l remember a number of times
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where he was directing a scene
in the hospital,
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where the sheriff and Cooper
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were going to see Ronnette Pulaski,
who was in a coma.
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Ontkean came in,
and they were going through the dialogue
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and the stool
that David had asked him to sit on
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was really shaky, so he lifted up the stool
and he was trying to fix it.
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Of course,
that became part of the scene.
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lt was wonderful to me, because
l was a fairly young director then,
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to observe that, to see how life comes in
and you incorporate it.
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l think that"s what makes David"s work
so alive; it felt so real.
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lt"s how much he"s open to that.
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Here"s the story as l have heard it.
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Frank was the prop guy on the show.
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They were doing
the POV of Grace Zabriskie looking at
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her daughter"s empty room
and her made bed
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indicating that she had not come home
the previous night.
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And... He calls, ""Roll!"",
they get the shot and he says, ""Cut!""
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He asked the operator how it was
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and the operator said,
""David, come here!""
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""Nobody move!""
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He said, ""Look through the camera. ln
the corner of the mirror on the dresser,""
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""you can see Frank
hiding against the thing,""
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""just the top of his head peering out
behind a chair.""
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David saw that
and just said, ""Perfect!""
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That sensibility is basically saying
that there are no mistakes.
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Everything is just
a possible opportunity
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or a new image l couldn"t have
thought up any other way.
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l was at the production company
one day,
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or some place,
the production studio,
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where they were cutting together
""Twin Peaks"" or ""Fire Walk with Me"".
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He and Mary were in there cutting
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and l just...wandered over
by the door.
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l was just listening in.
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He was talking to Mary,
saying, ""Play that again!""
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He played it again: ""Hey! You know,
l bet that"s what l meant by that!""
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Meaning that he had already shot it
and it was in the editing room,
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and now he was deciding
what maybe he had meant by that!
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That"s staggering!
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The kind of courage and belief in self
that that would require is...
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Boy, it"s just staggering!
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ln David"s best work,
you can really see it.
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You can see the connection,
like you were saying.
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Even starting back with ""Eraserhead"",
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or a little movie, like ""Elephant Man""...
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...and seeing his use
of some of the visuals
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that he goes back to time and again:
fire, you know, always...
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...insects, usually.
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You can really...
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David"s work is very identifiable:
that"s David Lynch.
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You watch David"s stuff
and it"s all framed pictures.
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Stuff happens inside that frame.
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And it works beautifully for David.
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He can focus one"s...
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...attention so well,
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to the smallest little detail.
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That"s his genius.
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He makes the ordinary extraordinary.
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lf you watch it for narrative,
you can almost see what"s going on.
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He"ll give you a patch of exposition
or a patch of narrative or a new character
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to build it to the next step
it needs to get to.
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Then it"s almost like,
""OK, we"ve done that.""
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""Now l can do some images
and strange stuff,""
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""now l can do some
the-darkness-beneath stuff.""
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""l can do that for a while""
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""and then l"ll need another patch
of narrative or exposition.""
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lt"s almost segmented in that way.
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""l"ll do that because that"s what l need
to hang this other stuff on.""
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l didn"t know all the places
l was going to go.
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One of the wonderful things
about working with David is that...
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Even if you have the script and
you know what you"re doing that day,
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you get to the set and you...
The layers...
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You go so much deeper
than where you think you"re going to go.
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l had a feeling
every time l went on the set
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that something magical
was going to happen, every single time.
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When you"re an actor,
you know who you"re supposed to be
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and why you"re doing this or that.
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You"re doing it ""as if this"" or ""like that"",
""because of this"".
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We didn"t know those things.
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""What am l?
Why am l doing any of these things?""
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He took pains
to make sure l didn"t know.
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There was a time...
l said to him one time,
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l tried from a lot of different angles,
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l can"t remember what l theorised,
but l said, ""You know what?""
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""l think maybe this is what l am.""
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""Maybe this is the reason
l"m doing what l"m doing.""
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And he turns to me and says,
""No. That"s not it at all.""
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""Are you ready? Action!""
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David can be cryptic,
but it"s best just to go along for the ride.
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That"s really what David wants you to do.
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He expects you to enjoy it
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and doesn"t want to have to explain
what he"s thinking.
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Maybe sometimes he"s not even sure,
he just has a feeling.
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So if you want an explanation, you
won"t get it, and probably shouldn"t.
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He lets you find your own way.
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lf you"re way off, he"ll bring you back,
but he wants it to come from you.
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He wants you to go into
the unconscious, like he does, l think.
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Other times, l said,
""David, what"s the context of this scene?""
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""How do l know where l"m going?""
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""What happened before
and what happened after?""
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He turned to me and said, ""Mike,
this scene doesn"t have any context.""
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""There"s nothing that happens
before this scene""
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""and there"s nothing
that happens after.""
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lt made me angry, a little bit,
because...
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""You"re lying to me!""
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""There"s no such thing as a scene
that doesn"t have a context!""
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The strange thing is,
when l saw the finished piece,
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there it was:
it had no context.
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lt was a disembodied scene
with nothing before or after.
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He was telling me the truth;
l just couldn"t quite swallow it.
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l just remember him saying,
""Sheryl Lee...""
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- l can"t do it!
- What did he say?
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He asked me how l would feel
about being wrapped in plastic
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and being thrown
into freezing cold water.
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l said, ""Fine."" That was within
the first ten minutes of meeting him.
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That was great.
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l"d never had someone say,
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""l want to wrap you in plastic...""
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""...and put you in freezing cold water.""
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That"s as much as l"m going to do!
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l know l"m going to get a phone call
from David Lynch!
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There was a scene early on with David...
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Which episode
did l eat the brie sandwich?
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Episode two.
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Episode two, and l still hadn"t
a real handle on the character yet.
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He hadn"t done enough. l knew
he was a wealthy guy and so forth,
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but l didn"t know he was so off the wall
and outrageous
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and humorous, also.
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l"m sitting with my wife, my son,
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who"s got a few oars out of the water
and has an lndian outfit on,
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and my brother"s just come back
from Paris
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and he brought
these brie sandwiches.
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They"re huge things.
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We"re having this very formal dinner.
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At one point,
when my brother hands me this, he says,
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""You"ve got to try this. lt"s delicious.""
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So l try it.
lt says in the script:
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""Ben eats the brie sandwich and says,
"Oh, this is terrific!"""
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l munch into it, still talking
to my brother... What am l saying?
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While you"re eating?
""You know what this reminds us of?""
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""Ginny and Jenny"s,
down by the river.""
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Right, right.
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Do we have that bread in there?
That brie?
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May l have a piece of brie
and l"ll show you what he had me do.
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We"re having fun now.
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David will come in and say,
""OK, Kale...""
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because he calls me Kale,
a nickname from a long time ago.
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He"ll say, ""l need a wind...""
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""...and a little more like Elvis.""
l say, ""No problem.""
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So l go back and translate that...
And that"s how it"s formed.
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David says,
""Eat the sandwich and talk.""
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l think l"m this wealthy guy,
l"ve got my Armani suit on,
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l"m supposed to be dignified.
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So my brother hands me this
and l take a bite.
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""That"s very nice."" And l continue
my lines: ""l see... Uh-huh...""
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""Cut! Cut, cut!
OK...""
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""What l"d like you to do,""
David says,
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""is really bite into that
and get a good mouthful.""
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And l"m still thinking,
""What"s the line here between being...""
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""...stupid,
out of character and, you know...""
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""...and doing what he wants?""
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l"m caught in this actor thing,
you know.
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So... ""Take two.""
So l take a bigger bite.
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""l see.
Well, that"s very interesting.""
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He says,
""Cut, cut, cut! No!""
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""l want you to take
a really big, big bite.""
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He"s kind of getting a little frosty here,
and l"m not getting it.
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OK, here we go again.
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l say, ""OK, l"ll take a bigger bite.
lt"s out of character...""
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And l say, ""OK, l understand...""
And he says, ""Cut! Cut, cut! No!""
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He says, ""Look, l want you
to take a bite so big""
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""you can"t even understand
what you"re saying.""
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So now, l"m... We"ve done this
more times than l"ve just suggested.
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We were now way over...
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We"re up to nine or ten takes
and l haven"t done enough.
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l feel the character"s off the wall,
l don"t know who he is.
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l think, ""OK"",
so we do it again
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and this time...
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And we cut...
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And he says,
""Thank you very much.""
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""That"s what l wanted.""
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That"s what happened.
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l remember David telling me
how to say ""bear claw"".
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But he didn"t tell me how to say it,
he didn"t give me a line reading,
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but it was a feeling that l had
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of the insult of being told...
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...that l had stuck my pitch gum
under the counter,
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and the kind of roiling anger that
the log lady was constantly sitting on,
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because she really had no use for a lot
of people because they were silly.
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And his way of telling me
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about how l wanted
to order that bear claw
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got to some place
deep in that character.
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l wish l could remember
what he said,
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but maybe if l did remember,
l wouldn"t tell you.
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lt was always great fun
working with David,
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because you never knew
what would happen next.
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You know, in some ways,
working with David can really spoil you
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because you get to go
to places creatively that...
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lt"s just so juicy.
You get to stretch and be challenged...
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...and feel excited and grow and play.
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lt"s very playful and fun.
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You can get very spoilt with that.
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On the surface, he"s so nice-looking
and he wears his khakis,
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and he"s, kind of, ""Gee, gosh!
That"s great, Peg!"" That kind of thing.
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But, yeah, l feel a part of him.
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Probably every actor
working with him does.
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Once l was in the car
with him and Mary
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and we were going
down Laurel Canyon.
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Some guy came up behind us
and was honking.
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lt was rude, and everything.
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He pulled over,
let this guy drive past us
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and then continued down the road.
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l said to him,
""David, you"re a nicer guy than l am.""
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And he turned around
and said, ""No. No, l"m not!""
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""l really want to destroy
that fellow up there,""
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""but l just don"t have time.""
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And then a little later,
when we saw ""Lost Highway""...
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...the same thing happened:
the car came up behind Mr Eddy
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and we saw Mr Eddy pull over, let
the guy by and then run up behind him!
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This is David vicariously
doing what he really...
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...what he had time for!
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lf l was sending somebody
to see a David Lynch film,
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l would tell them, ""Fasten your
seatbelts, you"re in for a bumpy ride.""
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""lt"s going to be provocative,""
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""it"s going to be disturbing,
it"s going to be probably violent""
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""and sexually disturbing
in some ways.""
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""On the other hand,""
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""you"re going to get images
probably like you"ve never seen before""
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""that will stick with you because
they are that unique and special.""
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Also the combination of ingredients
that l"ve talked about,
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the combination that you get with Lynch,
that it"s about images,
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that it"s about the dark underside,
about this strangeness
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that is part of life
that you can"t account for.
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There is this kind
of absurdist take on it.
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And also the humanism.
l think at the bottom of all of this,
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there is some humanism attached.
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That combination is unique
in film history.
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You boil it all the way down and
""Twin Peaks"" is about an abusive father.
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ln a way, it"s showing you
why Laura Palmer had to die:
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she was being abused.
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That becomes a very tragic tale
and a very human tale,
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so that"s quite a package
that he puts together,
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but it"s a unique one, l think.
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