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David Lynch


Born
in Missoula, Montana, The United States
January 20, 1946

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Genre
Arts & Photography, Entertainment, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences
Francis Bacon, Alfred Hitchcock, Rene Magritte, Luis Buñuel, Alejandro ...more


Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married, and fathered future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch shortly after he turned 21. That experience, plus attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired ERASERHEAD(1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 28,112 ratings · 2,901 reviews · 151 distinct works • Similar authors
Catching the Big Fish: Medi...
3.71 avg rating — 15,637 ratings — published 2006 — 88 editions
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Room to Dream
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4.33 avg rating — 6,235 ratings — published 2018 — 45 editions
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Lynch on Lynch
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4.26 avg rating — 3,030 ratings — published 1997 — 34 editions
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Welcome to Twin Peaks: An A...
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3.75 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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Lost Highway
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David Lynch: Someone is in ...
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Images
4.22 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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The Air is on Fire
4.31 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Regreso a Twin Peaks
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Nudes
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“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
― David Lynch
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“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
― David Lynch
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“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
― David Lynch
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