David Lynch is such a creative genius without being at all patronising or pretentious about it. I love his answer here... he really believes and appreciates that every person will have their own valid interpretation of his films which is important to them.
The key to most of Lynch's movies is pretty simple - from Eraser Head to Mulholland Drive just know that you are in the main character's head and experiencing the dreams (or nightmares) and wishes of that character while at the same time trying to reconcile reality. They are brilliant and beautiful character studies and my favorite films.
Is a heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film
Also, anyone who doesn't get Mulholland Drive should see the 'THEORIES' page at the Lost on Mulholland Drive website. It's very obvious that Lynch knew what the fuck he was doing when he made it.
Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
This are the clues: At first the dance and faces before of the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D I hope that I can help you.
Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
This are the clues: At first the dance and faces before of the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D I hope that I can help you.
Many people don't truck with a movie that doesn't have a story, and/or a moral/lesson. However some movies are about a feeling instead, an action movie might purport to have some important message for the kids (e.g., teamwork) but really its about conveying the feeling of adventure, travel, and excitement. Some artists just want to drop the trappings completely, and go straight for the feelings. I don't see what is so wrong with it, you don't have to watch it if you don't want to.
She watched Mullholland Drive with her son? I'm willing bet that son didn't know the film had a lesbian sex scene in it before he agreed to go watch it with his mom.
I think it's frustrating when artists refuse to explain their work. Leaving films etc open to interpretation is at first a liberating thought, but it also leaves room for hacks and frauds to make money for nothing. I don't think it's right to make effortless noise with limited pre-cognition behind it, and then sell it as if it has value, when the creator has no idea what it means to begin with.
@HotBroodish that's complete bullshit. Everyone has the right to choose to spend money on a film, even if you can't understand it. What he means is that everyone sees the movie in a different setting, different mind with different experiences, so a film this abstract cannot be explained as if understood by any person, nor the maker himself.
I saw Lost Highway, and the ENTIRETY of my left-brain was against it... But in the right hemisphere, it burned like a furnace, something about the movie, I don't know what, I really couldn't tell you why I enjoyed the movie, even after I told myself to stop it time and time again while watching it, because I was so confused by the plot. He's not the guy I'd name if you'd ask for my favourite director, but my god does he leave an impact. I'm not trying to bullshit here, it's just something odd...
@Chameleonardodavinci Just look up "psychogenic fugue." It's a pretty rare & obscure disorder. Even Lynch has made that clear on what the film deals with.
Mulholland Drive is a superb film, but it does frustrate me. Just about every time I think I've worked it out, something stands out which completely destroys the idea!
-he has no ideea what he's doing in his movies,look at him !
-most of the americans are ignorant and they only know about this dude here when it comes to modern surrealism in movies ; reading subtitles is too hard for them,therefore they'll never be able to watch a decent japanese or french surreal movie
@kevluv93 David Lynch has stolen a lot of his stuff from guys like Burroughs. Lynch has his standard tropes. 50's pop culture, someone being murdered, doppelgangers, blond women who are sluts. Usually it's a combination of all of these things. You could put words on pieces of paper, pull them out of a hat, and make yourself a Lynch movie really.
@subsamadhi I'm guessing... not a Lynch fan. But yeah I kinda watch Lynch movies for the novelty of it. Maybe Lynch is a genius but right now it seems that every time he writes a script he takes a lot of mescaline right before brainstorming.
@kevluv93 It just pisses me off that he is so smug in this video here. You can almost hear him sitting there congratulating himself while people ask him questions that he's not willing to answer. I just think it's bullshit really. I wish someone in that audience would stand up and just ask him: "why the fuck are you so full of yourself? Your movies aren't all that great to begin with".
@subsamadhi You say that but no-one has done them things anywhere the way he has done it, in his genre.
Its impossible to create something out of nothing - it has to already exist somewhere. But it is posible to take influences and make your own unique art. David suceeds in my eyes as being original, and I don't admire a lot of people for that quality.
Why don't you make a short film, upload it onto youtube so we can all analyse your masterpiece?
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN Oh, David Lynch has taken many an idea from other movie makers. I know a lot about the guy.....plus he has friends with deep pockets. He hit up just about everyone imaginable around him for money while making Eraserhead. He makes entertaining movies (some of them) but he definitely has the resources going for him. I'm just saying, he's not that great of a director and he is full of himself. He's not the only "artist" to display these traits.
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN If I had enough time and money, I could make a decent movie I'm sure. It sounds like a simple thing to do really. I have about fifty bucks to my name right now. So I guess I could borrow someones' camera and pay a homeless dude $10 to dance the Charleston for me for a couple of hours. Unless David Lynch's rich friends want to give me a hand.
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN movie-making is a trade. It is a well-oiled business that doesn't require a whole lot of imagination or originality really. I am aware of how most people make them. So yeah, in theory I could probably make a pretty good one. I'll just do what 99% of most directors do: find a book that exists with an excellent story, change some names and events around, then hire a bunch on whiny pretentious idiots to yak at the camera for a couple hours then charge $10 a pop.
@subsamadhi "Movie-making is a trade. It is a well-oiled business that doesn't require a whole lot of imagination or originality really". Have you watched Mulholland Drive?
A lot of theories tend to be a load of rubbish. I'm not saying you can't write a script, but have you ever tried?
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN believe it or not, I have movie people in my family and such. I have watched them at my house as a kid writing screenplays and such. True story. Methinks that if I had enough time, I could probably do a pretty decent job at it.
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN Wow, you are getting WAYYY ahead of yourself there slick. I didn't say I disliked David Lynch at all. Go back and read my comments, or else don't engage me at all. I don't like his smugness and egotistical mannerisms in this interview he's doing right now. What the fuck do you think I am? I might be able to write a good screen play, but I'm not exactly sure for fuck sakes. "Slight doubt" what the fuck are we doing here prosecuting a murder? Get a life.
. . . each of us make the movie ''in our heads'', we interpret the images. . . and I'm here to tell you that ''my movie" of Eraserhead was pretty fuckin' weird. . .
I am glad Lynch keeps his personal creative views to himself . He allows the viewer to undertake their own journey of discovery. Many will find their own, some will remain lost and some may ultimatly uncover something truly wonderful if they throw away their preconceptions and enter into the mysterious world of the mind. Mulholland is much more than a story but a deep and creative moral tale of human behavior. Bravo! Thank you David Lynch!!!!
@Davidbasque15 nice to see the David Lynch fans on youtube are so open for a debate and accomodating to people with disparaging opinions about Lynch. Keep up the good work guys.
@subsamadhi I'm not representing the David Lynch fan club, and I just gave my opinion as crude and ignorant it may have sounded. It was the feeling I had at that moment, I can't change it.
@m00nracer civil discourse what the fuck is this a debate about tax reform? I understand his movies completely. They are not at all difficult to understand. I am just interested in cutting through the bullshit that's all. His motivation it seems is to just be strange just for the fuck of it. Stanley Kubrick occasionally suffered from this. It's really fucking annoying when directors do this. Put out a weird movie just to do it. Mental masturbation at it its worst.
right, and he affirm that the abstract is a part of HIS visual language, and that in itself is a pertinent to understand his work from his point of view. That the narrative isn't explainable in language alone is in my view a satisfactory answer.
@m00nracer no, it's not. a satisfactory answer would be a real answer. If Lynch wants to just give non-answers or just regurgitate someones' question back at them as if it was an answer, then that makes the audience fucking stupid for accepting that. I could go talk to a parrot and ask it questions. It will probably just spout out gibberish at me. I guess if you were retarded that would be satisfactory but to me it isn't.
@m00nracer nah, that's not it. when someone makes a movie that is completely open to interpretation, as this movie very much is, then it becomes pertinent to find out if there is actually something that is the "true story" so to speak. But since everybody already fucking knew that it was "open to interpretation" before they sat down with this guy, there really isn't any reason to ask him anything. That's my point.
Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
There are the clues: At first the dance and faces before the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D Iyou.
If you listen to these peoples' questions, they are asking the same things that I am curious about too. What is YOUR reasoning for the film? He might as well not even do this kind of Q&A with people who are asking him about it. It is totally fucking redundant if he's not willing to give answers. You might as well sit there and watch the movie and ask the TV screen questions if you can't get anything tangible.
@subsamadhi What do you mean? He obviously stated that his film is VERY MUCH open to interpretation, and that the viewer has the power to see it in whatever way they see fit. He's saying that whatever your interpretation of the film is, is correct. So if you think it sucks, well it sucks. If you think Diane is real and Betty is a metaphor for the fantasy she created, that's the case. If you think (as I do) that it's an exercise in freeing yourself from fear/confusion/pain, that's the case.
@subsamadhi It's all in the ideas, and this film has more ideas in it than any other film I've seen. There are numerous ways to interpret this film, and all of these interpretations have numerous ideas within the film that support them. "We create our own reality" would have been a more direct way for him to say what he's saying here, I guess.
@iamnothowardhues David Lynch plays with the same ideas in every one of his movies. I am just disappointed that he isn't willing to say what HIS intentions were for the movie. It is cool to make your own interpretations and such, but there is a bottom line for what it really IS about. Otherwise, why even make it? It has to mean something for HIM. He is just babbling here and not making anything tangible for those of us who REALLY want to know. Cut through the BS.
@subsamadhi lol, if you want to know what the bottom line is, who's to say there is a line? who's to say it is so simple and can be placed in a nice little neat box for consumption? I believe him when he said that he didn't know exactly where the ideas were coming from, the man works with raw inspiration and creativity it is boundless even if it is intangible, take it for what it is.
@pelletey still the question begs to be asked: why then would you sit there and do a Q&A when it is totally redundant to do so? I might as well just walk around and ask random strangers what their views of the movie are. Either that or he could just sit on the stage and flip off the audience members every time they ask him something because he really isn't doing a whole lot with this crap for those who are interested in understanding him better.
@subsamadhi Sure he did. He said he is coming from an abstraction, and he wants the woman and his audience to interprate his abstarction with their own perception.
I always find it encouraging when people learn to think for themselves.
I'm aware that David Lynch is famous for hating to explain the meanings of his movies, and how that can frustrate people. But I watched this and felt very encouraged, because of the point he makes at the end "...But you do know, and what you know is valid".
Hola, el que ha colgado el vídeo es español? me ha parecido oír a alguien explicándole en español a otra persona lo que estaban preguntando. Si es así por favor traducirlo porque me cuesta mucho entender el vídeo y me gustaría saber lo que dice David Lynch.
Understand that David is first and foremost an artist. An artist works with ideas and feeling. His ideas or expressions are to him as paint is to an artist. It is up to the viewer to draw their own interpetation of the finished piece. His films are whatever your mind tells you they are. Dont expect to watch David's films looking for a solid story line. His stories are like a Piccaso. A Piccaso may not make sense to some, but it will provoke a feeling from the viewer. Lynch is art.
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so mr. lynch, what is Mullholand Drive about?
"Well, you see... um... well... I bullshit everything. I literally just throw a bunch of shit against the wall and then take it to the editing room and try my hardest to make all of that shit fit into a film... so what it means to me is something different then say what it would mean to you"
@DolphinsNUM34 He is not talking about "throwing a bunch of bullshit against the wall" dude! You need to listen more carefully, really! At least you need to try to listen - instead of posting comments like the one you did.
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@RaketeRoll I know he's not. I was mocking him. Throwing shit against a wall and turning it into a film is what I imagine he does, because that's what I think of his films. To be honest I'm not sure what he said, he didn't answer the lady's question, that's for sure.
There's a difference between a shit film and a film that isn't to your taste. A shit film is like a film directed by Seltzer and Friedberg-blatantly lazy writing and cheap jokes. Lynch is not like that. Whether you love or hate them, David Lynch clearly puts effort into his movies. Surreal does not immediately equal shit. Just because his films are bizarre and don't follow a typical hollywood storyline does not mean he's just throwing shit against the wall as you claim
@eldemort well, art is subjective, as I'm sure you know. You may look at a painting or a picture and think its boring or unoriginal, and I might look at it and be blown away by it because it connects with me on a personal level. The same is said for david lynch films. For you, you connect with his films, I do not. I see them and think they are just pointless wastes of time.
i couldn't tell if he was actually answering her question or not until the very end, then the answer was immediate and what sounded like random babble made perfect sense.
I read somewhere that diane selwyn was abused by a friend of her fathers when she was younger and the movie also related to her supressed memories coming back to haunt her...it becomes clear in the audition scene with the old guy ...seriously lost on muholland drive explains everything
if you think about it, even art that we think is 'concrete' is abstract. like in books. when we read words, we don't get images and imagery from the words, we only get descriptions. from those descriptions, we use our imagination to create a world in our heads. and everyone's world is different because it was made by ourselves, even though we were reading the same book. david lynches movies go past that, and puts on film EXACTLY what he wants us to see, his world.
I know Moholland Dr and Lost Highway confuses people but to me I understand them completely, it's the mood, thought and rythm of his work that I am thankful and I am a better person and filmmaker because of it. Hint: we sometimes see or act in defferent personas to ease our minds copeing with tragedies and situations. It's our nature
I need help as an independent filmmaker, if anyone would care to help in a small way please search "Brozeiy's activist flick" If you think that it's hard to make independent films; you're simply getting your information from the wrong sources.
excelent, and it is so good to have access to the ideas of such a great master and artists, out of his own mouth (and hands). and it is soothing to hear him relate art and inner knowledge, hear him empower his observers and encourage them to accept their own understanding of what he had offered. it is such a beautiful statement: "and you know it. and when you know it, it is valid." bravo, david lynch. thank you for all the wonderful gifts.
Basically he is saying, 'look people, this is a piece of art. I can tell you what it meant to me, but the truth is that it has no one real meaning, each person's individual interpretation can be different.'
@7crusader7 okay, but art can't be meaningless so that it can achieve mystery. Otherwise it isn't interesting. There is nothing wrong with David saying "hey this is what I intended it to be", and for another person to say "This what I thought about it -your intention that is".
it's like the Sun in the 12th house. the coherent I looking over the unconscious mechanisms that make the universe work. Bush has that aspect, and it brings all the hidden things at work to the fore for all to see - but not necessarily understand. intuitively we're an advanced peoples but the higher mind rarely has a chance to be present in the mundane reality, mostly because it's been built out of synch with what's important down here on Earth, everyday things are so toxic to biology.
What a great guy. Totally unpretentious. Too many artists and art critics (especially in film) are quick to beat you over the head with the 'correct' interpretations of art. Lynch is truly groundbreaking in making things so abstract that they're open to many different layers of interpretation, then validating the viewer by telling them that whatever they take away from the experience is correct. Then he goes a step further by even admitting that he himself doesn't always get it.
To reply to someone else, the audience is laughing because she was completely straightforward with her question, not because they thought she was stupid.
@who3697cares Or, you are speaking for a large group of people and can't accept the possibility they could be pretentious assholes who think they "got it".
everyone is laughing, pretending that they know everything: Bravo to this brave lady...There are no stupid questions (she just asked the question that 99% of audience wanted to ask :)
Too bad for you, I thought it was decent to watch. You couldve also put up a different window and just listened to the audio if you had been really interested. You missed some good stuff here.
What a great answer! It's hard not to be won over by Lynch's generous & thoughtful personality in addition to being in awe of him as an artist.
He's probably had to answer variations on the English teacher's question thousands of times in his life. It would be so easy for an artist of his caliber just to blow it off or give snarky response.
And yet, he has the respect for his audience to offer a thorough response that doesn't condescend to the person who asked it.
If you ever purchase the DVD, be sure to look at the "Helpful Hints" for solving the mystery in Mulholland Drive (maybe to parody the feature handouts for his earlier sci-fi mainstream production, Dune?). It's a nice elbow in the rib about the "abstract(ness)" of the film.
I like Lynch's response in this clip about personal validity from said abstractness.
communication does not always have to be scripted, lettered out for you to read. Body language is important in human communication. If you've ever dreamt a dream you were unsure of, or ever stopped for half a minute to think about the dream or another persons actions, then you will understand the pureness of an abstract idea
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I am not a HUGE fan of David Lynch and I have not seen all of his movies. Only a couple of his films I enjoyed watching. It seems that he is being abstract for the sake of being abstract - or to be cool? I do not understand making a plotless, meaningless movie and having someone say that it is genius filmmaking for the simple fact that there is no...message. The only Lynch films I liked was "The Grandmother" and "Eraserhead" perhaps because I like films that are shot in black and white
With that crazy hand stuff going on, Lynch himself would probably be the freakiest character in one of his movies. Beats the cowboy in Mulholland Drive by far... Apart from that, I love David Lynch and his movies.
If you tie Lynch's hangs up, he wouldn't be able to explain himself, lol (Just joking, he's a really good filmmaker and artist).
890slay 2 months ago
I want slap his hand away so bad...
TheHuskerton 2 months ago
David Lynch is such a creative genius without being at all patronising or pretentious about it. I love his answer here... he really believes and appreciates that every person will have their own valid interpretation of his films which is important to them.
fez287 3 months ago
@fez287 which is another way of saying he doesn't know what the hell the meaning of the movie is
somotastic21 1 month ago
THANK YOU!!!! this totally hit a spot in my mind that has been waiting for an answer for a long time!!! <3
morsafeliz 3 months ago
i could have used this speech in a film theory essay...
stillnotlovinnpolice 3 months ago
The key to most of Lynch's movies is pretty simple - from Eraser Head to Mulholland Drive just know that you are in the main character's head and experiencing the dreams (or nightmares) and wishes of that character while at the same time trying to reconcile reality. They are brilliant and beautiful character studies and my favorite films.
geeezzzberger 3 months ago 3
whats he doing with that hand...playing the trumpet!?
did he ever watch himself on film... how stupid it looks!!
CT2507 3 months ago
Is he on drugs right now?
RedTailedTuna 4 months ago
i fucking love this man
ptercottontail 5 months ago 4
All you haters out there just can't appreciate a non linear story. Thats your loss. Maybe you should stick to Disney movies.
sugarkaneification 5 months ago 2
Diane is Betty when the film begin
lunayong 6 months ago
Is a heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film
lunayong 6 months ago
Also, anyone who doesn't get Mulholland Drive should see the 'THEORIES' page at the Lost on Mulholland Drive website. It's very obvious that Lynch knew what the fuck he was doing when he made it.
RaygunShaun 6 months ago
English teachers should stick to books.
RaygunShaun 6 months ago
talks alot with his hands.
EvanLauGoodwin 7 months ago
I wish my mom was so liberal to let me watch Mulholland Drive.
leafyutube 7 months ago
He likes to make weird shit and have the audience tell him what it was about.
mmr11027 7 months ago
aw god, THE FINGERS...THE FINGERS!!!
CheeseMoe13 7 months ago 68
@CheeseMoe13 the quintopus
redpaul79 5 months ago
That has got to be the most muscular hand on the planet.
SummerUpdate 8 months ago
This guy is Alfred Hitchcock lite!!!!!
bobbollu 8 months ago
such a wonderful man
NorbertPSV0000 8 months ago
@NorbertPSV0000 He may be a nice man but what the hell is he talking about how bout you explain it to all of us commenting here????
bobbollu 8 months ago
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Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
This are the clues: At first the dance and faces before of the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D I hope that I can help you.
lunayong 6 months ago
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Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
This are the clues: At first the dance and faces before of the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D I hope that I can help you.
lunayong 6 months ago
Many people don't truck with a movie that doesn't have a story, and/or a moral/lesson. However some movies are about a feeling instead, an action movie might purport to have some important message for the kids (e.g., teamwork) but really its about conveying the feeling of adventure, travel, and excitement. Some artists just want to drop the trappings completely, and go straight for the feelings. I don't see what is so wrong with it, you don't have to watch it if you don't want to.
necro351 8 months ago 5
She watched Mullholland Drive with her son? I'm willing bet that son didn't know the film had a lesbian sex scene in it before he agreed to go watch it with his mom.
Ichiboy900 8 months ago 50
@Ichiboy900 Neither did I when I watched it with my mom. Big deal. :)
anarchymethod 1 month ago
I think it's frustrating when artists refuse to explain their work. Leaving films etc open to interpretation is at first a liberating thought, but it also leaves room for hacks and frauds to make money for nothing. I don't think it's right to make effortless noise with limited pre-cognition behind it, and then sell it as if it has value, when the creator has no idea what it means to begin with.
HotBroodish 8 months ago
@HotBroodish well said my friend. My wife and I watched Mulhallond and said What??????What the hell
did that mean. DAVID LYNCH DOESN"T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS???? Are you shitting me?????
bobbollu 8 months ago
@HotBroodish that's complete bullshit. Everyone has the right to choose to spend money on a film, even if you can't understand it. What he means is that everyone sees the movie in a different setting, different mind with different experiences, so a film this abstract cannot be explained as if understood by any person, nor the maker himself.
TimeTracers 5 months ago 2
His air guitar is contagious. I started doing it too XD
soulscreach 9 months ago
I'd love to rap with that guy all night.
vagueblack 9 months ago
his fingers have a mind of their own
theairborne145 9 months ago 2
I saw Lost Highway, and the ENTIRETY of my left-brain was against it... But in the right hemisphere, it burned like a furnace, something about the movie, I don't know what, I really couldn't tell you why I enjoyed the movie, even after I told myself to stop it time and time again while watching it, because I was so confused by the plot. He's not the guy I'd name if you'd ask for my favourite director, but my god does he leave an impact. I'm not trying to bullshit here, it's just something odd...
Chameleonardodavinci 10 months ago 2
@Chameleonardodavinci "Lost Highway" makes more sense when you familiarize yourself with the psychogenic fugue state.
KleWdSide 9 months ago
@KleWdSide How do you mean?
Chameleonardodavinci 9 months ago
@Chameleonardodavinci Just look up "psychogenic fugue." It's a pretty rare & obscure disorder. Even Lynch has made that clear on what the film deals with.
KleWdSide 9 months ago
Mulholland Drive is a superb film, but it does frustrate me. Just about every time I think I've worked it out, something stands out which completely destroys the idea!
andypandy474 10 months ago
facts:
-he's considered a fucking national hero
-he has no ideea what he's doing in his movies,look at him !
-most of the americans are ignorant and they only know about this dude here when it comes to modern surrealism in movies ; reading subtitles is too hard for them,therefore they'll never be able to watch a decent japanese or french surreal movie
MySweetSeoul 10 months ago
Rule number one: Never ask David Lynch what his films mean.
barneygrumble 10 months ago 3
I wonder what a day in Lynch's brain would look like.
kevluv93 11 months ago
@kevluv93 David Lynch has stolen a lot of his stuff from guys like Burroughs. Lynch has his standard tropes. 50's pop culture, someone being murdered, doppelgangers, blond women who are sluts. Usually it's a combination of all of these things. You could put words on pieces of paper, pull them out of a hat, and make yourself a Lynch movie really.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@subsamadhi I'm guessing... not a Lynch fan. But yeah I kinda watch Lynch movies for the novelty of it. Maybe Lynch is a genius but right now it seems that every time he writes a script he takes a lot of mescaline right before brainstorming.
kevluv93 10 months ago
@kevluv93 It just pisses me off that he is so smug in this video here. You can almost hear him sitting there congratulating himself while people ask him questions that he's not willing to answer. I just think it's bullshit really. I wish someone in that audience would stand up and just ask him: "why the fuck are you so full of yourself? Your movies aren't all that great to begin with".
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@subsamadhi You say that but no-one has done them things anywhere the way he has done it, in his genre.
Its impossible to create something out of nothing - it has to already exist somewhere. But it is posible to take influences and make your own unique art. David suceeds in my eyes as being original, and I don't admire a lot of people for that quality.
Why don't you make a short film, upload it onto youtube so we can all analyse your masterpiece?
TheIncredibleBAGMAN 10 months ago
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN Oh, David Lynch has taken many an idea from other movie makers. I know a lot about the guy.....plus he has friends with deep pockets. He hit up just about everyone imaginable around him for money while making Eraserhead. He makes entertaining movies (some of them) but he definitely has the resources going for him. I'm just saying, he's not that great of a director and he is full of himself. He's not the only "artist" to display these traits.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN If I had enough time and money, I could make a decent movie I'm sure. It sounds like a simple thing to do really. I have about fifty bucks to my name right now. So I guess I could borrow someones' camera and pay a homeless dude $10 to dance the Charleston for me for a couple of hours. Unless David Lynch's rich friends want to give me a hand.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN movie-making is a trade. It is a well-oiled business that doesn't require a whole lot of imagination or originality really. I am aware of how most people make them. So yeah, in theory I could probably make a pretty good one. I'll just do what 99% of most directors do: find a book that exists with an excellent story, change some names and events around, then hire a bunch on whiny pretentious idiots to yak at the camera for a couple hours then charge $10 a pop.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@subsamadhi "Movie-making is a trade. It is a well-oiled business that doesn't require a whole lot of imagination or originality really". Have you watched Mulholland Drive?
A lot of theories tend to be a load of rubbish. I'm not saying you can't write a script, but have you ever tried?
TheIncredibleBAGMAN 10 months ago
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN believe it or not, I have movie people in my family and such. I have watched them at my house as a kid writing screenplays and such. True story. Methinks that if I had enough time, I could probably do a pretty decent job at it.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@subsamadhi What have these people written in your family that can rival Mulholland Drive? You still haven't answered if you've watched it or not.
"Pretty Decent" implies slight doubt. You are also using time as an excuse. I think you're bullshiting and I'm bored now so to sum up our talk:
1. I love David Lynch's work and he inspires me.
2. You dislike David Lynch's work and think you can do better
3.You have never attempted to write a script, but say it's easy
I think we can move on now.
TheIncredibleBAGMAN 10 months ago
@TheIncredibleBAGMAN Wow, you are getting WAYYY ahead of yourself there slick. I didn't say I disliked David Lynch at all. Go back and read my comments, or else don't engage me at all. I don't like his smugness and egotistical mannerisms in this interview he's doing right now. What the fuck do you think I am? I might be able to write a good screen play, but I'm not exactly sure for fuck sakes. "Slight doubt" what the fuck are we doing here prosecuting a murder? Get a life.
subsamadhi 10 months ago
@kevluv93 something similar to an upside-down Picasso painting
TheIncredibleBAGMAN 10 months ago
I can't concentrate on what he's talking about while that hand is movin.
akato518 11 months ago
. . . each of us make the movie ''in our heads'', we interpret the images. . . and I'm here to tell you that ''my movie" of Eraserhead was pretty fuckin' weird. . .
PunkysDilema1970 11 months ago
I am glad Lynch keeps his personal creative views to himself . He allows the viewer to undertake their own journey of discovery. Many will find their own, some will remain lost and some may ultimatly uncover something truly wonderful if they throw away their preconceptions and enter into the mysterious world of the mind. Mulholland is much more than a story but a deep and creative moral tale of human behavior. Bravo! Thank you David Lynch!!!!
oldgoldtop 11 months ago
His shit isn't even that groundbreakingreally. I have read authors who have more interesting plot twists and original ideas than Lynch.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
@subsamadhi you're an ass. get out.
lynchaxxonn 11 months ago
@subsamadhi Watch inland empire and stfu
Davidbasque15 11 months ago
@Davidbasque15 nice to see the David Lynch fans on youtube are so open for a debate and accomodating to people with disparaging opinions about Lynch. Keep up the good work guys.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
@subsamadhi I'm not representing the David Lynch fan club, and I just gave my opinion as crude and ignorant it may have sounded. It was the feeling I had at that moment, I can't change it.
Davidbasque15 11 months ago
well, obviously you neither understand Lynch's films nor how to have a civil discourse about different points of view. Good luck with your cancer.
m00nracer 11 months ago
@m00nracer civil discourse what the fuck is this a debate about tax reform? I understand his movies completely. They are not at all difficult to understand. I am just interested in cutting through the bullshit that's all. His motivation it seems is to just be strange just for the fuck of it. Stanley Kubrick occasionally suffered from this. It's really fucking annoying when directors do this. Put out a weird movie just to do it. Mental masturbation at it its worst.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
right, and he affirm that the abstract is a part of HIS visual language, and that in itself is a pertinent to understand his work from his point of view. That the narrative isn't explainable in language alone is in my view a satisfactory answer.
m00nracer 11 months ago
@m00nracer no, it's not. a satisfactory answer would be a real answer. If Lynch wants to just give non-answers or just regurgitate someones' question back at them as if it was an answer, then that makes the audience fucking stupid for accepting that. I could go talk to a parrot and ask it questions. It will probably just spout out gibberish at me. I guess if you were retarded that would be satisfactory but to me it isn't.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
brilliant answer. Our consumption based society wants to be spoonfed all the answers.
m00nracer 11 months ago
@m00nracer nah, that's not it. when someone makes a movie that is completely open to interpretation, as this movie very much is, then it becomes pertinent to find out if there is actually something that is the "true story" so to speak. But since everybody already fucking knew that it was "open to interpretation" before they sat down with this guy, there really isn't any reason to ask him anything. That's my point.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
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Is an heroin trip of Diane, there are two parts, the unreal and real, when you connect both you will get the idea of the film, is a beautiful, perfect structured film. Dianne is Betty at first.
There are the clues: At first the dance and faces before the introduction, then the carpet, the bed, the coffe cup, the death body wrist, the scene of the red lamp and the house where is the uncle Ruth. :D Iyou.
lunayong 6 months ago
If you listen to these peoples' questions, they are asking the same things that I am curious about too. What is YOUR reasoning for the film? He might as well not even do this kind of Q&A with people who are asking him about it. It is totally fucking redundant if he's not willing to give answers. You might as well sit there and watch the movie and ask the TV screen questions if you can't get anything tangible.
subsamadhi 1 year ago
wow...he just explained absolutely nothing
subsamadhi 1 year ago
@subsamadhi What do you mean? He obviously stated that his film is VERY MUCH open to interpretation, and that the viewer has the power to see it in whatever way they see fit. He's saying that whatever your interpretation of the film is, is correct. So if you think it sucks, well it sucks. If you think Diane is real and Betty is a metaphor for the fantasy she created, that's the case. If you think (as I do) that it's an exercise in freeing yourself from fear/confusion/pain, that's the case.
iamnothowardhues 1 year ago
@subsamadhi It's all in the ideas, and this film has more ideas in it than any other film I've seen. There are numerous ways to interpret this film, and all of these interpretations have numerous ideas within the film that support them. "We create our own reality" would have been a more direct way for him to say what he's saying here, I guess.
iamnothowardhues 1 year ago
@iamnothowardhues David Lynch plays with the same ideas in every one of his movies. I am just disappointed that he isn't willing to say what HIS intentions were for the movie. It is cool to make your own interpretations and such, but there is a bottom line for what it really IS about. Otherwise, why even make it? It has to mean something for HIM. He is just babbling here and not making anything tangible for those of us who REALLY want to know. Cut through the BS.
subsamadhi 1 year ago
@subsamadhi lol, if you want to know what the bottom line is, who's to say there is a line? who's to say it is so simple and can be placed in a nice little neat box for consumption? I believe him when he said that he didn't know exactly where the ideas were coming from, the man works with raw inspiration and creativity it is boundless even if it is intangible, take it for what it is.
pelletey 1 year ago
@pelletey still the question begs to be asked: why then would you sit there and do a Q&A when it is totally redundant to do so? I might as well just walk around and ask random strangers what their views of the movie are. Either that or he could just sit on the stage and flip off the audience members every time they ask him something because he really isn't doing a whole lot with this crap for those who are interested in understanding him better.
subsamadhi 11 months ago
@subsamadhi Sure he did. He said he is coming from an abstraction, and he wants the woman and his audience to interprate his abstarction with their own perception.
dantedraco 1 year ago
I always find it encouraging when people learn to think for themselves.
I'm aware that David Lynch is famous for hating to explain the meanings of his movies, and how that can frustrate people. But I watched this and felt very encouraged, because of the point he makes at the end "...But you do know, and what you know is valid".
badegg3210 1 year ago
Hola, el que ha colgado el vídeo es español? me ha parecido oír a alguien explicándole en español a otra persona lo que estaban preguntando. Si es así por favor traducirlo porque me cuesta mucho entender el vídeo y me gustaría saber lo que dice David Lynch.
kalahiri 1 year ago
Understand that David is first and foremost an artist. An artist works with ideas and feeling. His ideas or expressions are to him as paint is to an artist. It is up to the viewer to draw their own interpetation of the finished piece. His films are whatever your mind tells you they are. Dont expect to watch David's films looking for a solid story line. His stories are like a Piccaso. A Piccaso may not make sense to some, but it will provoke a feeling from the viewer. Lynch is art.
chest002 1 year ago
I am the 66,999th viewer :D
SasaYamaoka 1 year ago
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so mr. lynch, what is Mullholand Drive about?
"Well, you see... um... well... I bullshit everything. I literally just throw a bunch of shit against the wall and then take it to the editing room and try my hardest to make all of that shit fit into a film... so what it means to me is something different then say what it would mean to you"
fuck you david lynch. Your movies suck.
DolphinsNUM34 1 year ago
@DolphinsNUM34 boooo
fucktittieswontonsou 1 year ago
@fucktittieswontonsou sorry... I figured I'd catch some hell for that one.
DolphinsNUM34 1 year ago
@DolphinsNUM34 He is not talking about "throwing a bunch of bullshit against the wall" dude! You need to listen more carefully, really! At least you need to try to listen - instead of posting comments like the one you did.
RaketeRoll 1 year ago 4
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@RaketeRoll I know he's not. I was mocking him. Throwing shit against a wall and turning it into a film is what I imagine he does, because that's what I think of his films. To be honest I'm not sure what he said, he didn't answer the lady's question, that's for sure.
DolphinsNUM34 1 year ago
@DolphinsNUM34
There's a difference between a shit film and a film that isn't to your taste. A shit film is like a film directed by Seltzer and Friedberg-blatantly lazy writing and cheap jokes. Lynch is not like that. Whether you love or hate them, David Lynch clearly puts effort into his movies. Surreal does not immediately equal shit. Just because his films are bizarre and don't follow a typical hollywood storyline does not mean he's just throwing shit against the wall as you claim
eldemort 1 year ago 2
@eldemort well, art is subjective, as I'm sure you know. You may look at a painting or a picture and think its boring or unoriginal, and I might look at it and be blown away by it because it connects with me on a personal level. The same is said for david lynch films. For you, you connect with his films, I do not. I see them and think they are just pointless wastes of time.
DolphinsNUM34 1 year ago
What line from the Bible completely explains Eraserhead?
RaySquirrel 1 year ago
i couldn't tell if he was actually answering her question or not until the very end, then the answer was immediate and what sounded like random babble made perfect sense.
JDBEDORE 1 year ago
I read somewhere that diane selwyn was abused by a friend of her fathers when she was younger and the movie also related to her supressed memories coming back to haunt her...it becomes clear in the audition scene with the old guy ...seriously lost on muholland drive explains everything
MixxBunny 1 year ago
"Cinema is a language that can say abstractions."
The64v 1 year ago
aww isn't he lovely
richardzimmermann86 1 year ago
The master of Twin Peaks
theonlybandever1000 1 year ago
An insane genius.
BishopOcelot 1 year ago 3
I love Davids loyalty to his imagination.....you can always turn to his art and know what to expect= art
sr038 1 year ago
Good Lord he sounds like the Joker
mort1990 1 year ago 10
@mort1990 ... Damn, you're right. Never realised that before!
Richie11291 1 year ago
@mort1990 yesssssssssss
dullath 1 year ago
@mort1990 haha lol
dirty06maggot 6 months ago
Mullholland drive is one of my favourite films.
I love it when people try to explain what it is about in conceptual terms - it cannot be done!
The reason the film is so brilliant is because as Lynch says it resonates with deeper parts of ourselves that are beyond words.
Try describing the taste of chocolate icecream!
jagara1 1 year ago
if you think about it, even art that we think is 'concrete' is abstract. like in books. when we read words, we don't get images and imagery from the words, we only get descriptions. from those descriptions, we use our imagination to create a world in our heads. and everyone's world is different because it was made by ourselves, even though we were reading the same book. david lynches movies go past that, and puts on film EXACTLY what he wants us to see, his world.
ronnyim12345 1 year ago
so... in the end... there was no clear answer... just an abstract answer
ognistik 1 year ago
What was the sentence? The one in the Bible he was talking about.
What the hell was the sentence, David?
thegreatreverendx 1 year ago
@thegreatreverendx oh, right. as if he'll EVER tell. i wouldn't either.
dullath 1 year ago
@dullath Aw that's gonna drive me NUTS. Now I HAVE to find that sentence!
thegreatreverendx 1 year ago
Sorry the spirit fingers creep me out.
sweetmamajen 1 year ago
I know Moholland Dr and Lost Highway confuses people but to me I understand them completely, it's the mood, thought and rythm of his work that I am thankful and I am a better person and filmmaker because of it. Hint: we sometimes see or act in defferent personas to ease our minds copeing with tragedies and situations. It's our nature
visionmakertv 1 year ago
LOL @ his hands. I wonder if he is doing it on purpose.
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brozeiy 1 year ago
really interesting hand puppet gestures. I love this man!
ambiguito 1 year ago
does he have aspergers?
kfag101 1 year ago
America should be proud of this great artist..
augustusdes 1 year ago 2
@augustusdes I think America is he's a genius
EchoCannon89 1 year ago
Funny how his films are so dark and yet he seems like such a nice, sweet guy LOL.
AndrewMann552 1 year ago
i wonder what the sentence was in the bible that inspired him?
joecigarette 1 year ago
he's actually typing on a computer in his head.
thunderclease 1 year ago
@thunderclease Mr Wiggly Fingers is implanting nightmares...I love this man
gishikin 1 year ago 2
excelent, and it is so good to have access to the ideas of such a great master and artists, out of his own mouth (and hands). and it is soothing to hear him relate art and inner knowledge, hear him empower his observers and encourage them to accept their own understanding of what he had offered. it is such a beautiful statement: "and you know it. and when you know it, it is valid." bravo, david lynch. thank you for all the wonderful gifts.
ACnear14 1 year ago
what's so hard understand about mulholland drive? woman see dream in sleep, wakes up goes insane and kills herself.
kungiiii 1 year ago
love him so much... he is true inspiration
angelchrist 1 year ago
he's great
Zeinishe 1 year ago
David is the evolution of film.
Plain and simple.
vor92718 1 year ago 2
I love when he moves each fingers, It such a weird movement XD
elskerikke 1 year ago 2
Basically he is saying, 'look people, this is a piece of art. I can tell you what it meant to me, but the truth is that it has no one real meaning, each person's individual interpretation can be different.'
7crusader7 2 years ago 10
@7crusader7 okay, but art can't be meaningless so that it can achieve mystery. Otherwise it isn't interesting. There is nothing wrong with David saying "hey this is what I intended it to be", and for another person to say "This what I thought about it -your intention that is".
souldude81 8 months ago
it's like the Sun in the 12th house. the coherent I looking over the unconscious mechanisms that make the universe work. Bush has that aspect, and it brings all the hidden things at work to the fore for all to see - but not necessarily understand. intuitively we're an advanced peoples but the higher mind rarely has a chance to be present in the mundane reality, mostly because it's been built out of synch with what's important down here on Earth, everyday things are so toxic to biology.
randomlaughingman 2 years ago
What a great guy. Totally unpretentious. Too many artists and art critics (especially in film) are quick to beat you over the head with the 'correct' interpretations of art. Lynch is truly groundbreaking in making things so abstract that they're open to many different layers of interpretation, then validating the viewer by telling them that whatever they take away from the experience is correct. Then he goes a step further by even admitting that he himself doesn't always get it.
tpaladino 2 years ago 4
@tpaladino He's a down to earth kind of guy. I like that in a person. You can see he's a humble person, not some ego booster douche.
And yet, he's given us some of the most fantastic films ever.
in5secs 1 year ago
@in5secs EXACTLY. watch his interview with jay leno. brings a tear to my eye
dullath 1 year ago
This man is pure, unadulterated human genius.
LaMaitresseNoir 2 years ago 9
i wish he would explain eraserhead
boozeyman 2 years ago
Somewhere on the other side of planet, a woman was screaming in pleasure.
BInRt 2 years ago
I love this guy. he keeps playing air guitar : P
His abstractions and bizarre sense of horror and solitude attracts me
asphyxed 2 years ago 35
Bet he had to ice his fingers afterwards.
feck2112 2 years ago 5
LEGENDFACE
nurikospecial 2 years ago 4
To reply to someone else, the audience is laughing because she was completely straightforward with her question, not because they thought she was stupid.
who3697cares 2 years ago 8
@who3697cares Or, you are speaking for a large group of people and can't accept the possibility they could be pretentious assholes who think they "got it".
zofspade 1 year ago
everyone is laughing, pretending that they know everything: Bravo to this brave lady...There are no stupid questions (she just asked the question that 99% of audience wanted to ask :)
xbikox 2 years ago 3
that's exactly why they're laughing. that and also what who3697 said.
xBillyTheKidx 2 years ago
i can't watch this the camera is just to shaky.. bummer
sponooch 2 years ago
Michael J. Fox was holding the camera!! Wow!!
jsparrow666 2 years ago
@jsparrow666 i feel bad for loling at this.
encrustanail 1 year ago
Too bad for you, I thought it was decent to watch. You couldve also put up a different window and just listened to the audio if you had been really interested. You missed some good stuff here.
BluntActivist2008 2 years ago
This is really interesting, inspiring and cool.
Kevo216666 2 years ago
what a pain...youre going to a david lynch conference or whatever...and you NO idea how to handle a freacking camera!!!
cineasta71 2 years ago 6
thank the good lord in heaven for lynch
woodhd 2 years ago 7
his hand is feeling the other side of our demension.
thelittlegiantman1 2 years ago 75
david lynch's hand on a piano
iwitchhunter 2 years ago
spirit fingers
Ayo456 2 years ago 3
this man for president
woodhd 2 years ago 11
this makes me think that the movie doesn't have any real sense is just the sense that you find it
janohermano 2 years ago
He's doing that thing with his hand again.
anton1990 2 years ago
Yeah...lol, his hand seems to have a mind of it's own, and so does his hair.
Lynch for president.
TheFragile89 2 years ago 4
total genious!
kfag101 2 years ago
What a great answer! It's hard not to be won over by Lynch's generous & thoughtful personality in addition to being in awe of him as an artist.
He's probably had to answer variations on the English teacher's question thousands of times in his life. It would be so easy for an artist of his caliber just to blow it off or give snarky response.
And yet, he has the respect for his audience to offer a thorough response that doesn't condescend to the person who asked it.
He really is anti-elitism.
nationaltryst 2 years ago 8
el que grabo habla español?
Mattnek 2 years ago
Mulholland Drive is fairly straightforward.
Gotham33 2 years ago
lulz to the walls.
If you ever purchase the DVD, be sure to look at the "Helpful Hints" for solving the mystery in Mulholland Drive (maybe to parody the feature handouts for his earlier sci-fi mainstream production, Dune?). It's a nice elbow in the rib about the "abstract(ness)" of the film.
I like Lynch's response in this clip about personal validity from said abstractness.
geesycreesy 2 years ago
All those people laughing as if they are in on some mysterious joke, she was just saying what everyone was thinking.
Jacorner 2 years ago 2
I rather think they are laughing because she is saying what everybody is thinking, and they are glad that she asks the question.
kadvid 2 years ago 3
communication does not always have to be scripted, lettered out for you to read. Body language is important in human communication. If you've ever dreamt a dream you were unsure of, or ever stopped for half a minute to think about the dream or another persons actions, then you will understand the pureness of an abstract idea
guerrillacap 2 years ago 2
look at that hand go
wezmo15 2 years ago 5
the rest of his work I never really cared for.
j4unumber1 2 years ago
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I am not a HUGE fan of David Lynch and I have not seen all of his movies. Only a couple of his films I enjoyed watching. It seems that he is being abstract for the sake of being abstract - or to be cool? I do not understand making a plotless, meaningless movie and having someone say that it is genius filmmaking for the simple fact that there is no...message. The only Lynch films I liked was "The Grandmother" and "Eraserhead" perhaps because I like films that are shot in black and white
j4unumber1 2 years ago
David Lynch's films do have messages, they are just hard to find. He wants the viewer to interpret what they think it means.
JonathanAmar14 2 years ago 4
Have you seen Blue Velvet or Mulholland Dr.? Those are less abstract, and they actually have plots.
Delpheno2K7 2 years ago
he wont tell you what it means.
AhYaOk 2 years ago
I love Lynch's hand.
brainiacbelle 2 years ago 3
parkinson's
ultrakool 2 years ago
With that crazy hand stuff going on, Lynch himself would probably be the freakiest character in one of his movies. Beats the cowboy in Mulholland Drive by far... Apart from that, I love David Lynch and his movies.
FokkoVersloot 2 years ago
if only all questions could be answered "i dont know, but you do know, and what you know is valid"
THE BEST
lisaluvsmelluvzbrit 2 years ago
lol i was laughing so hard at his hand. brilliant guy, tho
polishpunk911 2 years ago 2