Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more
compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946).
And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In
this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews
in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them.
Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The
Grandmother or the breakout surrealist feature Eraserhead, the hit TV
series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue
Velvet or his experimental tours de force, Mulholland Drive and
Inland Empire, he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate
his vision.
David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the
director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities
throughout his career, including filmmaking, painting, music production,
and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch's role in
discussing his movies, from his self-described "pre-verbal stage" in the
early years to his increasingly elaborate, though persistently elusive,
articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in
Lynch's work, with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated
here for the first time.