Mulholland Drive Prehistory

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 having to bend my movie scripts to an end halfway through. On a series you can keep having beginnings and middles and develop story forever.” (...)


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