DAVID LYNCH Interview (The GUARDIAN Lectures 1985) (PART 1/2) eraserhead/dune

David Lynch interviewed (by Chris Auty) in 1985. inc. audience Q&A. The GUARDIAN LECTURES. PART 1 of 2

[@jonathanmelia]

I was in the audience for this, December 1984! I'd just turned 17, and got his autograph afterwards. I was sitting just behind Rafaella De Laurentiis....

[@crystinamarie1]

Jealous!

[@blahhappyboo]

i love his voice so much

[@TheSoftMachineisaMan]

It's weird how his actual persona is so placid and mild compared to his works

[@MichaelMiraula]

Rejected by Cannes & The New York Film Festival....very nice.

[@timothycollins9739]

This says Lynch was "born in the mid-50s". He was born in 1946.

[@samnicholson5051]

In fairness he's always looked about 10 years younger than his actual age

[@jonathanmelia]

Auty gets it wrong at the beginning: THE ELEPHANT MAN got loads of Oscar nominations, but didn't win a single one! It mostly all went to ORDINARY PEOPLE, shame!

[@omrgo_]

This is my first hearing of Ronny Rocket, sounds like it would've been cool.

[@yohei72]

Not sure whether I should tell you this, but a version of the script is available online. The little bit I've read, just the beginning, has kind of an "Eraserhead meets Blade Runner" feeling.

[@johnmoser9731]

It's crazy he said the idea of Blue Velvet came from sneaking into a girls room and spying on them and that turns out to be the best scene of the movie and one of the best scenes of any movie.

[@magnoliamike]

The first David Lynch movie I seen was Dune and that was when I was younger I didn’t know until today that he directed it I recently got interested in his work and philosophy about transcendental meditation. Also noticed he uses that same actor and most of his movies. The guy from Twin Peaks

[@Prince8of8pella]

This is interesting because it is before his real masterpiece twin peaks and a lot of his best ones

[@mantra3000]

You mean before his masterpiece Blue Velvet :)

[@cannibalholocaust3015]

And his opus Mulholland Drive.

[@jack_myers]

"if the man is ever bit as strange as his movies" yes

[@kernowarty]

Wow David, huge hair.

[@makeithurtful]

I'd really love to see a biographical feature film based on Lynch's early days, no one could really play him though.

[@MrRoemilca]

And now we have The Art Life!

[@martinarreola64]

Leo!

[@StopmotionStudios13]

​@martinarreola64 no not leo. Hes a good actor but its not a fit. 6 year old comment haha

[@CommieApe]

For someone like David Lynch, that sounds genuinely awful.

[@Fallingmonsters]

wow, that millionaire knew how to invest...

[@radiofriendly]

God bless him! Who is it?

[@dzenacs2011]

TRUMP

[@zetetick395]

Awwww! So young, so callow!

[@jimmynorton1001]

same fucking guy he is now but looks younger. not always the norm

[@meditating010]

The man got rejected from cannes. Tells you a lot about cannes?

[@yohei72]

Well... they've given him a Best Picture prize and a Best Director prize since then, so... I guess it tells us that film festivals are constantly evolving institutions. And that some artists take a while to be fully appreciated.

[@zetetick395]

It's common knowledge that Mr Lynch isn't happy with his Dune work : I wonder if he considers it at all 'saveable' ? (either via editing, or inserting extra cuts not used etc etc) Love to see him (even) try to redeem Dune (as the one film he's really unhappy about/ unsatisfied with in his entire filmography)

[@RockandrollNegro]

He's stated that he could never authorize a "director's cut" because he was never allowed to film the sequences he felt were indispensable to the story. He kept his name on the final cut as a favor to Rafella DeLaurentis but wanted to use the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym originally. He later used it for the extended TV version which credited the director as Alan Smithee.

[@dzenacs2011]

​@@RockandrollNegro hes psycho. I believe. Sitting abdolutely happy here tslking about Dune and 20 years later cant say 2 words about it cause he :immencely hate it".

[@BrookelleBlasphemy]

UHHHHH

[@nickilovesdogs8137]

David, your moving art starts out so creative, colorful, wonderful, modern and lovely and then it becomes a horror film why is that? Why do you always make something pretty turn into something so negative? Why not leave it colorful and happy? I don't get it man. There must be an emotional story behind it.

[@krishnavamsi4102]

i think he loved the emotion "fear" more

[@therevoltingamericans354]

It’s all beautiful if you look at it right.

[@clayandputtyvideos1647]

@@krishnavamsi4102 It is very apparent that he was very traumatized as a child and that fear theme comes through in his art expressions.