Lynch on Lynch

David Lynch talks. He talks about his childhood in Montana and Idaho, about the images that came to him in the night, about how he learned to paint and how painting led to film. About the specific texture of each of his films — from Eraserhead, shot over five years in a chicken coop, through Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive. About his ideas. About the fish-bowl theory of consciousness. About what he wants from an audience.

Chris Rodley’s interviews with Lynch, conducted over many years and completely updated for this edition, constitute the most comprehensive and most revealing portrait of one of the most important and most unclassifiable filmmakers alive. Lynch is an extraordinarily self-aware artist, and these conversations — circling the same images and obsessions from different angles across different years — produce an understanding of his work that no other source provides.

Essential for any Lynch devotee — and one of the best books about film and artistic process available. Published by Faber & Faber.