Room to Dream

by David Lynch

said, ‘In life you don’t know everything. You enter a room and people are sitting there and there’s an atmosphere, and you immediately know if you have to be careful about what you say, or if you have to be loud, or silent, or subdued—you immediately know it. The thing you don’t know is what’s next. In life we don’t know where the story is going or even where a conversation is going to go in the next minute.’ David’s

awareness of this is central to his films. He’s very sensitive to the mystery that surrounds everything.”2

A central part of Lynch’s gift is the fluidity of his imagination: He builds on what’s around him as opposed to looking for what isn’t there, and it’s something everyone who works with him comments on. “One of the most important things David’s taught me is to be really present,” said Sheryl Lee. “He pays attention to everything and can adapt to whatever is happening around him and transform it into art because he’s not attached to what’s supposed to be. That’s part of what makes it so thrilling to be on set with him and why it’s so alive.”