Laura Dern Quotes

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.

David Lynch helped me be cool.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.