There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.
— Mark Frost
When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
I like to take my time with things.
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.
I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.
Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.
It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.
My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.
There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.
In a business that's driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public for a brief time doesn't constitute a trend.
I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.
My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club champion. Whenever I was visiting them, I got a double barrel of golf lore. I guess it was always in my blood.
I went to high school in Minnesota.
If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.
I think you can safely say that the mystery in 'Twin Peaks' as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.
The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We're coming back with season three of 'Twin Peaks' after a 25-year absence.
I don't normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I'm not a binge-watcher by nature myself.
As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.
At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.
As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.
'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
I'm a realist about how the networks work.
There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.
People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'
It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified.
I want something that's going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about and chew over. That's the real objective here; it creates something that doesn't feel disposable.
My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!
A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.
We've learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility.
The whole mythological side of 'Twin Peaks' was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.
There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.
To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.
I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.
I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.
The sport was right in the center of these changing social dynamics. It was a game invented by blue-collar people in Scotland but adopted by the elite in England and America. All of those conflicts were coming into the open. I was amazed to find out how much was played out in golf as well.
There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
