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"In Hollywood there is anger"

[David SPIEGEL interview with Lynch in Inland Empire]

Question: Mr Lynch, what have you just eaten?

David Lynch: A vegetable soup, then salmon with a great sauce. A very light dish. Why you ask?

Question: You are now considered Hollywood's great mystics and meditate several times a day. Where this way of life, not a particular diet?

Lynch: Yes. Meditation is liberating and not to be conducted constraints. You can eat everything. Personally, I prefer food that does not offend my taste nor my eyes.

Question: In your new film INLAND EMPIRE They tell of an actress (Laura Dern) is cast in a mysterious film of Eastern Europeans who live in the woods, and by people with rabbit heads. Even fans will admit that they hardly understand the movie. Also we are pretty clueless. Can you help us?

Lynch: I understand your dilemma. Most movies are easy to understand. But I just do not tell stories, but working with abstractions. The cinema can carry off the audience into a world beyond the intellect, in which it must be entirely trust their own intuitions. It is not about to understand something, but to learn something.

question: What? Confusion?

Lynch: Confusion can stimulate very much! There are many viewers who love to let himself fall into a movie. When they come out of the cinema, he has continued in them, they try to make a rhyme to what they have just experienced. Others are frustrated because they understand nothing, feel lost. But for which there are so many other films.

Question: The classic narrative cinema?

Lynch: Exactly. It is timeless, and I love it very much. But I want to extend its forms and structures as far as possible. This requires, however, always a good idea.

Question: What was the big idea in Inland Empire?

Lynch: Actress Laura Dern came over to me and said she had moved into my neighborhood. This meeting was a crucial experience for me, I immediately felt a strong desire to work with her one more film. And when Laura told me that she came from an area east of Los Angeles, the Inland Empire is called, the title was found.

Question: Does the idea when? The film seems to us like a wild stream of thought.

Lynch: He is not! Then he would be arbitrary. If I can think of a scene, I have the room in which she plays, and the light that is there, right in front of his eyes. But come with any good idea, unfortunately However a lot of garbage with the I must sort out again.

Q: But you show the audience images that other directors would be sorted out immediately. Why sometimes the faces of the actors in the foreground are blurred, while the walls are clearly visible behind them?

Lynch: That was not intentional, that was because of the camera! But when I saw those images where the viewer does not know exactly what he should direct his attention, she liked me.

Question: Previously, you were with films like "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Wild at Heart" (1990) and stars like Isabella Rossellini or Nicolas Cage an audience of millions. INLAND EMPIRE saw in the U.S. or not even 100,000 people. Can you not follow the crowd?

Lynch: The more abstract a film is, the less the audience it finds, it was always like that. But I think the audience understand INLAND EMPIRE much more than they imagine themselves. And I am convinced that we are living in a time of upheaval. More and more viewers, the same old Hollywood movies are sorry, and it could be that the art-house cinema therefore receives more popular.

question: Is not that plenty of optimism? This year is poised to Hollywood to break records again.

Lynch: Maybe, but we have now a truly global cinema. We see films from Asia or from Africa. Everyone can now take a camera in hand, rotate and distribute a film. Hollywood no longer has total control.

question: Really? Hollywood has the avant-garde film not already collected? More and more large-scale productions such as "Babel" or "Syriana" are using a non-linear narrative.

Lynch: But you can not compare it with my films! As yet only a linear story in a different order is assembled. This is not innovative, but merely a fad.

question: Where will the innovative theater in the future? On the Internet?

Lynch: Certainly. As we will discover artists with completely new forms of expression.

Question: Use the Internet itself as an artistic playground? Even on your home point in a sitcom people with rabbit heads.

Lynch: Yes, but I have not consciously tried only on the Internet and then later used in the film. Many of my ideas, develop a life of its own. So I see INLAND EMPIRE although as a counterpart to "Mulholland Drive", but I can not tell you why act both films from Hollywood. I do not know how I get on my ideas. Perhaps they are more likely to me.

Question: Do you have a cow in the middle sat down in Los Angeles at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue to advertise INLAND EMPIRE to make. No idea why?

Lynch: Yes. I found out that people like cows very much. The cow and I had several appearances, once with a pianist, another time with the brass band of high school and some cheerleaders. I wanted to help Laura Dern thus an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately did not work out.

Question: They have always left very much. Do you really not afraid of anything? Much of your movies, even in INLAND EMPIRE touches on primal fears of aging, death, the disorientation ...

Lynch: It does not matter what I'm personally afraid, these are the normal things. We all have to give once and the body leave, and that fears are connected. But there is one vote, one person in us with which we share, and that is ageless. Safe: It is strange sometimes how fast time flies, but if you look at all the ideas and things that have to do in life, concentrated, then it is not Sun

question: Blind activism as a secret remedy for the fear of death?

Lynch: No, no! It is not enough to do something, anything. Fears and all the negative things disappear only when the large field of pure bliss takes up contact, this is for everyone at all times.

Question: What?

Lynch: I am talking about transcendence. They know that we only use a fraction of our brain capacity. The aim of my meditations, however, it fully exploiting.

Question: Sounds tempting. How does it work?

Lynch: It is an ancient practice: The mantra turns the mind inside! And we dive willingly, because it is our nature to pursue happiness for a higher. Every intellectual level, which we achieve through meditation brings more happiness, so we're always in front on, more and more transcend. This is a mental technique. And the further we advance on this path of enlightenment, the more we free up capacity. We exploit the full potential the beauty of the human being from. We are creative, lively and balanced. And in turn, disappears every ill.

Question: Do you engage in that type of meditation since the early seventies. If you are already enlightened?

Lynch: No, I am convinced that enlightenment is real, but it is also a very large, very noble cause. I'm on the way there. The beauty is that with each step, it becomes lighter, I can see every day.

Question: With all due respect, in your films is like not to feel much. On the contrary, there seems always to be claustrophobic and oppressive. Is there a Context?

Lynch: I fall in love with stories of recalcitrant emotions, conflicts, Horror, which is quite normal because it is human. But the filmmaker does not suffer itself to show suffering. On the contrary: the less I suffer, the more creative I am and can enjoy what I do. Whenever you are angry or upset about something, is the creative flow comes to a standstill because the whole spirit dwells on the negative things.

question: There are well known in the movie business a lot.

Lynch: Yes! And there are so many people in this business makes you sick! They toil not, they are afraid, you become depressed. In Hollywood There is anger: Imagine, someone heckled all day: You must accept the budget, you do not have the last word when cut - everything is just pressure, pressure pressure!

question: Considering that you argue for less fear and more enlightenment, but now you get quite a rage ...

Lynch: I am busy but not! I am a bit lively, but I'm not busy. But all this is simply too nice!

Interview by Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte © 2007 Spiegel. At the request of Mr. Lynch in the mirror again given attribution "Inland Empire" in the Inland Empire has been changed.