David Lynch interviewed by Elvis Mitchell

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David Lynch interviewed by Elvis Mitchell - 1998

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Күн бұрын

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@clmclachlan 4 жыл бұрын

I love how Lynch can say "no not at all" or "No, no no no" and instead of people leaning back, offended, they lean in, intrigued. The man is magic.

@chanjackie2299 3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys , did you know that David Lynch got most of his ideas for Twin Peaks from a movie called Waxwork ( 1988 ) ? You got everything in there, our coffee drinking weirdo hero, the girls looking for danger, the symbolism of fire and smoking, the dwarf , the giant ( as a waiter ) and the waiting room before entering fantasy worlds, the couch, the black and white pattern, the mistery in the middle of a street in a friendly neighbourhood, the football guys ( one is even the same actor, playing the exact same role ( Bobby ) ), the idea of One-Eyed Jack with Marquis de Sade etc , etc, shall i go on ? I mean sure he added a lots of extra layers, but he took the basics from there. And a lots of other horror movies, he took the idea of Jody's disappearance and the funny looking portal from Phantasm. I can share tons of other informations about Twin Peaks if you are interested. Im just too lazy to make a video.

@lacosingalerneb8543 3 жыл бұрын

@@chanjackie2299Stole the Idea of a drinking coffee weird hero!? Having a dwarf in a film!? A girl looking for danger!? Do you know how many movies have these elements!? In fact its exactly the point ! He took a "genre" with the elements going with it and morph it into something new with surrealism and other methods ....please look a little more deeper before accusing someone of plagiat ..its like saying that dumb and dumber plagiate Pink Panther because both have a stupid hero, both have a story about money and both have bad guys in it !...

@anthonycompiccia2498 Жыл бұрын

In my opinion the elephant man is one of the best films of all time although nominated for best picture to me is still very much underrated lynch is brutal

@anthonycompiccia2498 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@fire.walk.with.me.430 8 ай бұрын

@chanjackie2299 did you know that the black and white pattern from the black lodge is actually from eraserhead?

@rotano 6 жыл бұрын

I love the interviewer - knowledgable, let's him speak, guides the conversation, warm personality

@paununs8719 6 жыл бұрын

He's not afraid of being corrected by Lynch, as 99% of interviewers are.

@ironworld9822 5 жыл бұрын

Yes he was a very good, I agree. Very professional and cordial.

@RodReTit 5 жыл бұрын

It's the film critic Elvis Mitchell

@Halfagrapefruit 4 жыл бұрын

Everything Elvis puts to him, he (David) says "no, not at all'😂 they're both on fantastic form though♥️

@Orvulum 4 жыл бұрын

Elvis Mitchell. He has some really great interviews on a show called The Treatment. They can be found at the KCRW web site: www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment

@dreyescope6926 3 жыл бұрын

I love how David begins so many answers with the word "no", but with such enthusiasm. David Lynch is one-of-a-kind. It's a beautiful thing.

@vleaky3430 2 жыл бұрын

What I love about this interview is that Lynch hadn't even begun filming Mulholland Drive, arguably his most well known film, yet he had already done so much for the world of cinema. He truly is a gem whom people often overlook.

@adamant5550 Жыл бұрын

Eraserhead was a massive underground cult success. The Elephant Man was huge for him, nominated for 8 Oscars!

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely no one worthy of any attention is overlooking David Lynch.

@nickharte5035 Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy the audience applauded for Fire Walk With Me. Still such an underrated masterpiece.

@liberispuritatem 5 жыл бұрын

27:45 The Man from Another Place at the bottom right corner. Interview wasn't at LA, was in the Black Lodge CONFIRMED.

@askaboutloom9800 5 жыл бұрын

Dang, you’re right. Makes me think this wasn’t 1998 after all. What year is this??

@TimDanDanTheMan1 5 жыл бұрын

Great Eye!

@yohei72 4 жыл бұрын

LA *is* the Black Lodge.

@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL 3 жыл бұрын

AskAboutLoom has to at least be 97 since Lost Highway is already a known subject

@tranzco1173 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap. I never would have noticed that ever. Good eye dude!

@patrick4833 4 жыл бұрын

Interviewer is so chill, love seeing lynch cut loose

@ericfelds6291 2 жыл бұрын

I love when David just whips out a smoke

@JohnSmith-tc6xx 3 жыл бұрын

No spoon-fed resolution............ Well put

@geniusmode1219 4 жыл бұрын

Lynch keeps telling the interviewer he is wrong. So funny!

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

Au contraire; it's consummately tragic.

@yohei72 4 жыл бұрын

Man, I'd love to see those first two "bad" drafts of BLUE VELVET. I'm really fascinated by the processes that end up with films and books and other things that I know really well, though I know Lynch's feeling is the opposite and he kind of doesn't like letting people peek behind the curtain. He likes to retain the mystery and the intuitive quality.

@pauliedibbs9028 16 күн бұрын

Probably the best interview with David I've ever seen... hands down!

@susanwilson6621 3 жыл бұрын

David Lynch, you were very handsome at that age. You still are handsome just in a different way 😘‼️💖🙋

@roamfreefilms 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best few interviews ever done with Mr Lynch!

@nowthen873 3 жыл бұрын

Interviewer is fantastic, brings out the best of David here pop

@Raptormane 4 жыл бұрын

27:44 the actor who plays The Arm is in the audience on the right side of the screen.

@LichenAndMoss 4 жыл бұрын

wow!

@GamesWithBrainz 4 жыл бұрын

"Something struck me and I asked Gary if he had any explosives"

@jdog7797 5 жыл бұрын

"Something's isn't finished until it's finished." Wow a Yogi' ism, just blew my mind. Great minds think alike!!!

@danieldalton8266 Ай бұрын

He always mentions the most unnoticeable people by their full name that he’s met, and connected with and, you know he has really created rich relationships with all these people you never hear about and felt their lives touch his… and then he throws out really big names like they’re anybody else and that’s really cool.

@cassetiquette 4 жыл бұрын

I think the audience is just giddy to hear & see Lynch & wants to be involved. I think they’re also responding to his matter of factness.

@SeanFisher 5 жыл бұрын

The guy that mentioned the early Blue Velvet draft is named Josh. I met him a year after this interview was filmed. He was obsessed with Lynch, in a way that made me worried. I heard he went on to become a film maker. Forget his last name.

@EvanPriceMusicChannel 5 жыл бұрын

... I actually thought that was a young Bobby Moynihan (SNL)!!

@dklein951 4 жыл бұрын

@@cinemalover575 Josh was also a major part of the twin peaks festival that ran for almost 30 years until lynch and cbs took it away from the fans.

@vleaky3430 2 жыл бұрын

@@dklein951 you mean Lynch and CBS took back what was theirs.

@dklein951 2 жыл бұрын

@@vleaky3430 you can splain it however you like. neither of them did much to actually run the fest past the first one.. david did a couple of vids and his daughter called him one time during the dinner evening but just relayed a simple message. they own the rights obviously but they didnt take anything else that was theirs. the rest was ours.

@fetamean 5 жыл бұрын

"John Hurt had a hairless left arm... That was a secondary reason." This guy can do comedy too!

@embryonic7692 4 жыл бұрын

And he did! Mostly in his shorts I would say?

@colinrumford2265 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview. David Lynch is such an interesting man to listen to.

@JRobelen Жыл бұрын

There is an interview with David Lynch by Jay Leno elsewhere on KZfaq. Many of the commenters there spend time remarking on the audience’s reactions to everything that David has to say, as if they were too unsophisticated to “get it” and just laughing and applauding nervously. Here you have a hip presumedly educated crowd and they are reacting in EXACTLY the same way, at all the same types of moments. Nobody has exclusive insight to David Lynch, not the artists, nor the intellectuals, and certainly not movie or TV people. And that is why he is such a wonderful human being.

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

Precisely.

@jdog7797 5 жыл бұрын

He got me at Eagle scout. That's what kept me here.

@Charles12 Жыл бұрын

Same here, just had my court of honor today actually

@Mistermike1976 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think that an interviewer could be found that understood Lynch less. But, in a way, this made for a good interview because it was necessary for Lynch to correct and explain. Count the number of times David said “no or no no no” lol

@AlfredSoul 4 жыл бұрын

I have yet to see _one_ interview where he approves of the interpretation of his works.

@Vingul 4 жыл бұрын

@@AlfredSoul watch the one with Brian Linehan from 1986. Linehan is a strange fellow, at one or two points he almost seems to be psychoanalysing Lynch (in relation to Blue Velvet) but Lynch doesn't correct his "analysis".

@AlfredSoul 4 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul I looked it up and realised, I have already watched it and also had already watched it at the time of me writing this comment. Now that my suspicion is awakened, I'll take another look at it though. Thanks, mate.

@Vingul 4 жыл бұрын

Alfred Soul cheers man. Feel free to correct me, but that's how I recall it. On the whole I have the same impression as you have. Myself, I try not to over-interpret films and other works of art, though I enjoy pondering themes and to a degree, noticing symbolism (if there is any).

@AlfredSoul 4 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul I for my part very much enjoy, even love, the process of analyzing and interpreting and, to an extend, I also like reading about other people's perceptions of an artpiece. But personally, I don't think there is a wrong or right way to interpret, especially when the experience the art delivers relies on emotion, rather than understanding. There is the way the artist meant what they made to come out and off like, but that is just one possible option.

@margateswede 2 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting that David’s works seem to have an incredibly measured amount of classical film school techniques, methods and ideas contained within and the rest is pure David. It’s almost as if the fans can predict what his answers will be and when the “no no no…that’s not it”s are coming and how hard it is for an interviewer to ask the usual questions. David’s work is obviously deliberately abstract and nebulous in certain ways but it’s also very intuitive. Meaning trusting his intuition(s), not just haphazard improvisation. When he talks about being ready to catch ideas as a director the same is true (at least for me) as a fan. If you let his work soak into your senses and let things speak to you they invariably make more sense. Of course, the ”sense” of it may be exactly that, an emotion, a general feeling, a question. For me that’s the beauty of David’s work. It’s never a linear shopping list of archetypal ideas. Usually, for me, it’s a themed rollercoaster ride you want to take again. The fact that there is often a puzzle to unravel after the ride is like a tasty dessert. That’s why I love these interviews. He doesn’t seem to be deliberately mysterious. He’s really just saying ideas are important, even if they don’t exactly make sense at the time. So be open to them. Be ready for them to come, as an artist but also as a ”punter”.

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

The usual questions aren't worthy of any asking and much less of any amswering.

@ResistanceQuest 3 жыл бұрын

Truly a treasure

@zetetick395 5 жыл бұрын

Crowds seem to LOVE it when Dave gets on his Yoda schtick! I love how, if you look over the years, Mr Lynchs' haircut has slowly stood up into his very own version of the 'Henry Spencer' haircut! XD

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

Crowds are inescapably incapable of love.

@micpoc4597 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for posting this, HungerCity/AskAboutLoom!

@askaboutloom9800 7 жыл бұрын

No problem! I forgot how great this interview was.

@jesussaves2376 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the video

@judithbreastsler 4 жыл бұрын

the only interviewer who has ever had better hair than David

@billhannaford4488 Жыл бұрын

except Lynch's is real hair not extensions so no contest.

@julianr9220 4 жыл бұрын

I'm just a consumer; creative people are weird. Keep it going!!

@LordMarlle 4 жыл бұрын

The world is weird. Consumers have been whipped into shape. With weirdness you can find your true form

@julianr9220 4 жыл бұрын

@@LordMarlle Still in my mold but trying braking it. Thanks!!!

@fsopho 3 жыл бұрын

What a nice interview this was-thanks a lot for sharing it! 🔥

@CBiscuit25 Жыл бұрын

"The Lynch Who Stole Christmas" from the end of the video sounds lit

@jaywilldoit Жыл бұрын

Not only does David lynch have a way of being unintentionally funny, but I noticed it’s not the words themselves that are funny, it’s the way his words make you conjure up an image in your own head, and that image is funny.

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

It's the natural response of most to laugh at the sight of terror.

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

And their own stupidity is infinitely horrific.

@BROTRRer 2 жыл бұрын

This wasn't an interview, it was a battle of hairdos

@2.7petabytes 4 жыл бұрын

Lynch!!👍

@geniusmode1219 4 жыл бұрын

And why does the crowd keep laughing at everything he says whether it's funny or not?

@RenegadeShepard69 4 жыл бұрын

Fanatism.

@Preppyslaygirlysayslay 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the rabbits

@Crypticmind242 3 жыл бұрын

Damn I read the title wrong, I thought "David Lynch interviewed by ELVIS??? How is that poss....oh, Mitchell"

@mortigus2878 3 жыл бұрын

David "yes, but not quite" Lynch

@anastasiabananastasia 5 жыл бұрын

🔥

@christopherbrookfield4785 5 жыл бұрын

It sounds like it may be from the lost highway soundtrack. All the music in that film is great. Billy Corgan. Lou Reed. David Bowie. This Mortal Coil. Nine Inch Nails. Marilyn Mason. And that German, goth metal group. Can't remember their name. Rammstein?

@ParkerFlurnoy-mt8uy Жыл бұрын

#150# David's the best🌅.

@BraxtonSwine 2 жыл бұрын

24:40 Damn, the strength of David's character to listen to that kid's dumb fucking question and then answer him so politely.

@philbabb6460 3 жыл бұрын

GOOD morning

@Zegeebwah 6 ай бұрын

>$80/month rent >"That's too much"

@liamarunbennett8282 7 жыл бұрын

what is the music during the end credits? really cool

@atlearbuds 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa. I’ve never seen this Elvis skin before. Which DLC is it in?

@AnnaLVajda 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah you never know what horrors go on just under the surface of seemingly "nice" neighborhoods. Behind closed doors when the masks come off...

@fernandoferreira6293 Жыл бұрын

We know. AI knows.

@MikaNeow Жыл бұрын

He really didn't answer the question about doppelgangers.

@kradanbandicootovich6444 2 жыл бұрын

Admit it, 90 % of us came for the Twin Peaks portion of the interview

@6zz 5 жыл бұрын

The audience laughing is so annoying and uncomfortable

@VektorLomonosov Жыл бұрын

;) like! ;)

@bigbufobufo 3 жыл бұрын

4:30 😁

@Yeomannn Жыл бұрын

25:50

@Yeomannn Жыл бұрын

26:16

@chanjackie2299 3 жыл бұрын

@sandorrclegane2307 Жыл бұрын

Did he actually?

@tranzco1173 Жыл бұрын

A hard Lynchian "NO". However, an idea of mine is this: Everything seems similar, synchronicity, because there are only a certain amount of "stuff". Waxworks has some serious character archetypes going on, virtually every scary kind of character ever - Jungian "people" that remind us of other "people" who represent other "people". The Marquis De Sade could be Frank Booth. On and on and on.