The great director David Lynch may be calling a wrap on his career.
Lynch, 78, responded to Sight & Sound Magazine’s question if he’ll ever direct again.
Lynch answered: “No. I’ll tell you, I’ve gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, and so I’m homebound whether I like it or not. I can’t go out. And I can only walk a short distance before I’m out of oxygen.
“Smoking was something that I absolutely loved but, in the end, it bit me. It was part of the art life for me: the tobacco and the smell of it and lighting things and smoking and going back and sitting back and having a smoke and looking at your work, or thinking about things; nothing like it in this world is so beautiful.
“Meanwhile, it’s killing me. So I had to quit it. And now, because of Covid, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold. So I probably would be directing from my house. And because of Covid, they’ve now invented ways where you can direct from home. I wouldn’t like that so much. I like to be there amongst the thing and get ideas there. But I would try to do it remotely, if it comes to it.”
Lynch has been nominated four times for Oscars. His last movie was “Inland Empire” in 2006, although he was responsible for the third season of “Twin Peaks” — in which he appeared — and also had a successful cameo as director John Ford in Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.” In recent years, Lynch has been busy directing videos an commercials.
What a career he’s had, though! From “Blue Velvet” to “Mullholland Drive,” “Eraserhead,” “Wild at Heart,” “Twin Peaks” and more. Lynch received an honorary Oscar in 2020. Let’s hope he will still work remotely.
