David Lynch interviewed by Elvis Mitchell - 1998 

I love how Lynch can say "no not at all" or "No, no no no" and instead of people leaning back, offended, they lean in, intrigued. The man is magic.

I love how David begins so many answers with the word "no", but with such enthusiasm. David Lynch is one-of-a-kind. It's a beautiful thing.

I'm so happy the audience applauded for Fire Walk With Me. Still such an underrated masterpiece.

I love the interviewer - knowledgable, let's him speak, guides the conversation, warm personality

What I love about this interview is that Lynch hadn't even begun filming Mulholland Drive, arguably his most well known film, yet he had already done so much for the world of cinema. He truly is a gem whom people often overlook.

27:45 The Man from Another Place at the bottom right corner. Interview wasn't at LA, was in the Black Lodge CONFIRMED.

Interviewer is so chill, love seeing lynch cut loose

Lynch keeps telling the interviewer he is wrong. So funny!

Man, I'd love to see those first two "bad" drafts of BLUE VELVET. I'm really fascinated by the processes that end up with films and books and other things that I know really well, though I know Lynch's feeling is the opposite and he kind of doesn't like letting people peek behind the curtain. He likes to retain the mystery and the intuitive quality.

David Lynch, you were very handsome at that age. You still are handsome just in a different way 😘‼️💖🙋

No spoon-fed resolution............ Well put

"Something struck me and I asked Gary if he had any explosives"

27:44 the actor who plays The Arm is in the audience on the right side of the screen.

One of the best few interviews ever done with Mr Lynch!

I think the audience is just giddy to hear & see Lynch & wants to be involved. I think they’re also responding to his matter of factness.

Interviewer is fantastic, brings out the best of David here pop

"John Hurt had a hairless left arm... That was a secondary reason." This guy can do comedy too!

The guy that mentioned the early Blue Velvet draft is named Josh. I met him a year after this interview was filmed. He was obsessed with Lynch, in a way that made me worried. I heard he went on to become a film maker. Forget his last name.

Thanks for sharing the video

Wonderful interview. David Lynch is such an interesting man to listen to.

He got me at Eagle scout. That's what kept me here.

"Something's isn't finished until it's finished." Wow a Yogi' ism, just blew my mind. Great minds think alike!!!

Thanks again for posting this, HungerCity/AskAboutLoom!

There is an interview with David Lynch by Jay Leno elsewhere on RU-vid. Many of the commenters there spend time remarking on the audience’s reactions to everything that David has to say, as if they were too unsophisticated to “get it” and just laughing and applauding nervously. Here you have a hip presumedly educated crowd and they are reacting in EXACTLY the same way, at all the same types of moments. Nobody has exclusive insight to David Lynch, not the artists, nor the intellectuals, and certainly not movie or TV people. And that is why he is such a wonderful human being.

What a nice interview this was-thanks a lot for sharing it! 🔥

Truly a treasure

It’s interesting that David’s works seem to have an incredibly measured amount of classical film school techniques, methods and ideas contained within and the rest is pure David. It’s almost as if the fans can predict what his answers will be and when the “no no no…that’s not it”s are coming and how hard it is for an interviewer to ask the usual questions. David’s work is obviously deliberately abstract and nebulous in certain ways but it’s also very intuitive. Meaning trusting his intuition(s), not just haphazard improvisation. When he talks about being ready to catch ideas as a director the same is true (at least for me) as a fan. If you let his work soak into your senses and let things speak to you they invariably make more sense. Of course, the ”sense” of it may be exactly that, an emotion, a general feeling, a question. For me that’s the beauty of David’s work. It’s never a linear shopping list of archetypal ideas. Usually, for me, it’s a themed rollercoaster ride you want to take again. The fact that there is often a puzzle to unravel after the ride is like a tasty dessert. That’s why I love these interviews. He doesn’t seem to be deliberately mysterious. He’s really just saying ideas are important, even if they don’t exactly make sense at the time. So be open to them. Be ready for them to come, as an artist but also as a ”punter”.

Crowds seem to LOVE it when Dave gets on his Yoda schtick! I love how, if you look over the years, Mr Lynchs' haircut has slowly stood up into his very own version of the 'Henry Spencer' haircut! XD

"The Lynch Who Stole Christmas" from the end of the video sounds lit

I don’t think that an interviewer could be found that understood Lynch less. But, in a way, this made for a good interview because it was necessary for Lynch to correct and explain. Count the number of times David said “no or no no no” lol

Not only does David lynch have a way of being unintentionally funny, but I noticed it’s not the words themselves that are funny, it’s the way his words make you conjure up an image in your own head, and that image is funny.

I'm just a consumer; creative people are weird. Keep it going!!

the only interviewer who has ever had better hair than David

Lynch!!👍

Damn I read the title wrong, I thought "David Lynch interviewed by ELVIS??? How is that poss....oh, Mitchell"

what is the music during the end credits? really cool

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And why does the crowd keep laughing at everything he says whether it's funny or not?

David "yes, but not quite" Lynch

#150# David's the best🌅.

24:40 Damn, the strength of David's character to listen to that kid's dumb fucking question and then answer him so politely.

This wasn't an interview, it was a battle of hairdos

GOOD morning

He really didn't answer the question about doppelgangers.

>$80/month rent >"That's too much"

Whoa. I’ve never seen this Elvis skin before. Which DLC is it in?

4:30 😁

;) like! ;)

Yeah you never know what horrors go on just under the surface of seemingly "nice" neighborhoods. Behind closed doors when the masks come off...

25:50

26:16

I would have preferred Elvis Presley.

Admit it, 90 % of us came for the Twin Peaks portion of the interview

The funniest thing about this is David Lynchs memory 😂😂 he can never remember anything!

Hey guys , did you know that David Lynch got most of his ideas for Twin Peaks from a movie called Waxwork ( 1988 ) ? You got everything in there, our coffee drinking weirdo hero, the girls looking for danger, the symbolism of fire and smoking, the dwarf , the giant ( as a waiter ) and the waiting room before entering fantasy worlds, the couch, the black and white pattern, the mistery in the middle of a street in a friendly neighbourhood, the football guys ( one is even the same actor, playing the exact same role ( Bobby ) ), the idea of One-Eyed Jack with Marquis de Sade etc , etc, shall i go on ? I mean sure he added a lots of extra layers, but he took the basics from there. And a lots of other horror movies, he took the idea of Jody's disappearance and the funny looking portal from Phantasm. I can share tons of other informations about Twin Peaks if you are interested. Im just too lazy to make a video.

The audience laughing is so annoying and uncomfortable

Elvis Mitchell isn't even listening.

No, no.

What is everyone on about this interviewer is horrible. He's incredibly annoying and his questions are shallow and formulaic.

"I saw Elephant Man with an all-black crowd, and the empathy...." I'm out.

Terrible interviewer.

Was he an ACTUAL Eagle Scout, or was dude just speaking metaphorically or figuratively or whatever? I dont recall Lynch mentioning that.