I don’t know if that is true. There have been 110 or more years of cinema, and it’s impossible for any one of us to make a film that can’t be compared to something that has come before. To me Blue Velvet is Blue Velvet and Rear Window is Rear Window. You could say that Sunset Boulevard or Rear Window has conjured an idea for me, but even though I love them or am inspired by them, life is a 24/7 movie. Ideas come out of that all the time. It’s hard to say it’s cinema that conjures ideas. It’s altogether.
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David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
United States · 1946–2025
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American film director, screenwriter and painter, maker of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks.
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