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Director's Cut: David Lynch on Creating the Art Life
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In 1997, author David Foster Wallace described David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet as an “entirely new and original kind of surrealism.”
When he saw the film as a college student, Wallace considered himself as one of the hyper educated avant-garde writers who failed at writing because the teachers were not interested in the subject. But once he saw this film, he realized his original works were just not that good.
Because of Lynch’s film, Wallace realized that what “really great artists do [is present] entirely themselves. They’ve got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and that if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
He also says Lynch snapped him out of this delusion, even though “film and books are very different mediums.”
Lynch would likely agree with many of Wallace’s ideas, but he wouldn’t see a movie influencing a book writer as ironic. Instead, he whole-heartedly believes in what he calls “the art life.”
“Everything is connected in one way or another,” said Lynch in his new MasterClass. “And, suddenly, something in that gives you an idea for a film.” ...
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