“In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.”

—  David Lynch

As quoted in "Lost Highway" interview by Mikal Gilmore in Rolling Stone (6 March 1997)

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