“All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.”

“And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.”

“But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.”

“I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.”

“Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.”

“To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.”

“We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.”