Dennis Lim > Quotes

“Lynchian, he wrote, is “a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s perpetual containment within the latter.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Una vez fue al psiquiatra y, después de la primera sesión, preguntó si el tratamiento podría inhibir su creatividad. El psiquiatra le dijo que sí y Lynch no volvió nunca jamás.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Save with Dave.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Mel Brooks is said to have called him “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“The paradox of the Lynchian sensibility is that it is at once easy to recognize and hard to define.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“But Lynch is more than the sum of his effects. A catalog of weirdness fails to account for the irreducible strangeness and power of the films, or the fascination they exert.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Lynch, for his part, professes ignorance when it comes to psychotherapy. He once went to a psychiatrist and, after the first session, asked if the process might inhibit his creativity. The shrink said yes and Lynch never returned.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“David Foster Wallace described his voice as “Jimmy Stewart on acid.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“To savor the thingness of words is to move away from their imprisoning nature.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“It’s such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Filmmakers as different as Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, and Harmony Korine have been called Lynchian. And the concept is by no means confined to cinema. The self-reflexive fictions of the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño and the twisty, mythology-driven television series Lost have been termed Lynchian.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

“Citing the vague tagline that describes Eraserhead as “A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things,” Christie asks Lynch: “Would you like to expound on that a little?” “No,” the filmmaker replies immediately, shaking his head and smiling.”
― Dennis Lim, David Lynch: The Man from Another Place