I Don't Think I've Had

David Lynch Is Very Important To Me, And He Does Dreamlike Movies, But My Dreams Are Not Like David Lynch's Dreams. I Have No Interest In Copying Anybody's Work. It Would Never Occur To Me To Want This To Look Like Someone Else's Thing.

My Point Of View Comes More From The Literature I've Read And The Comedy Of The Era. When I Was A Kid, Coming Across National Lampoon Magazine, That Was A Big Thing. I Suddenly Felt Like There Were Other People That Felt The Way I Did, And There Was A Way Of Expressing And Communicating This Worldview.

When I'm Writing A Script, Before I Can Write Dialogue Or Anything, I Have Two Or Three Hundred Pages Of Notes, Which Takes Me A Year. So, It's Not Like "what Happens Next." I've Got Things That I'm Thinking About But I Don't Settle On Them. And If I Try To Write Dialogue Before Then, I Can't. It's Just Garbage.

I Like Actors - I Used To Be One.

Seriously, I Don't Consider Myself A Writer. I Don't Think I Have Writing Talent. But I Will Continue To Do It.