I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
I'm a huge 'Twin Peaks' fan.
David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.
The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.
David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted someone in the room with me that I could look over and say, 'Can you believe we're watching this?'
I'm a big David Lynch fan.
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.
Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.
'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
Star Trek' always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with 'Twin Peaks,' you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
