See this post by Linda Faludi: "David is straight from the forties. He has the big hands, the dreaminess, and he is caught in a cycle of remembering driving back then in Montana with his granddad Austin Lynch — the giant steering wheel gripped by leather driving gloves, the slow sound of the wheels. He feels the same way about Los Angeles, which is a character in Mulholland Drive — the bygone smells, and the wisteria, and the dreaminess." - Mary Sweeney, editor and companion at the time. Quote from The New Yorker, "Creative Differences", August 1999 . Then see this post : When David Lynch was making Twin Peaks in 1990, he had mentioned the idea for Mulholland Drive over dinner with Tony Krantz, friend and production partner at a Hollywood restaurant. In the intervening period, however, Lynch developed serious doubts about television: “With all the commercials and its terrible sound and picture, TV is a hair of a joke, really. Tony knew that I’ve never liked havin...