
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. He has also directed several music videos for artists such as Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Calvin Klein, Dior, L'Oreal, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and the New York City Department of Sanitation.Ī practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), in 2005 he founded the David Lynch Foundation, which seeks to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans, and refugees. He has written the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). Lynch's other artistic endeavors include his work as a musician, encompassing the studio albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013) as well as painting and photography. He also portrayed Gordon Cole in the Twin Peaks projects.
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Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), and Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and the limited series Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). Other notable films include Dune (1984), Lost Highway (1997), and Inland Empire (2006). His film Wild at Heart (1990) earned the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001).

His first feature-length film was Eraserhead (1977). Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. He has received numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019.

A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received acclaim for his independent films, which have been described as often involving elements of surrealism and film noir. David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor.
