David Lynch Answers a Question

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I love how Lynch starts cracking up a little once he realises how this conversation has to end 😂

[MrKenneffdupriest]

Eddie Vedder was asked what the lyrics to a certain song was about and he refused to answer simply saying "If I tell you, then it will ruin it for all the others that think it means something else".

[oogiegoogie]

There’s a lot of anti-analysis people in these comments. Just because an artist doesn’t want to explain his work doesn’t mean his choices are purely aesthetic. Art is often best left to interpretation. And regardless, the intent behind a work of art is less important than the meaning found in it by its audience.

[robhaskins]

I love Lynch. He's an artist who's always embraced the total experience of the art and never sullied it with extra-visual meaning. He just goes somewhere, and we follow.

[Ulteras]

Moderator: *explains something long and hard of what he thought is a motif in all of Lynch's movies*
Lynch: "No"

[cobymarcum]

Me explaining to a girl why I think a she and I would make a good couple before asking her on a date.

[ChaineYTXF]

Your own interpretation of someone's work, until confirmed by the artist, is just that: your interpretation.

[snacksizeattila]

"I can answer that"
"Will you?"
"No I will not"

[adamflamm]

"What part of weird and vague for the sake of weird and vague don't you understand?"

[ethanholgate]

🤣🤣🤣 he went through all that to get a no 😅

[jacobpaint]

The reason Lynch is so successful is because his films don't have such specific meaning. The imagery just feels right and because he has good intuition it works. He finds a balance between a music video style film where it seems to be mostly nonsense (you can get away with that for the length of a song) and a proper dramatic film where there is symbology and character arcs. When he makes a choice it has to feel like it has a meaning but it doesn't specifically need to have one meaning... Personally, I don't love most of his films but I always find them interesting to watch... And enjoy people confidently giving me their explanation of what it all meant. Mulholland drive was quite boring but I loved the way people were so convinced they had it worked out.

[samuelbarber]

Oh crap, it’s Mark Kermode.


Lynch sounded like Stephen Hawking there.

[dreamplace]

It's mind boggling to me that someone could think of the origin of an artistic visual motif as being from an intellectual-scientific understanding of the world, in this case, neuroscience.

It does happen, but those artists usually fall flat on their face, and end up appearing to say, "look at how intelligent I am."

About as boring as it gets.

[cannibalholocaust]

Lynch : me like bright sparks and flashes

Movie intrallextual : it’s the arcing synapses in our Brain isn’t it

Lynch: …….

[GMe]

People try to look too much into lynch films and judge them from a psychological view point. They’re just art ; that’s it.