00:01:44.500If you catch an idea that you love, that's a beautiful, beautiful day.
00:01:49.440And you write that idea down so you won't forget it.
00:01:52.460And more and more come in, and pretty soon you might have a script.
00:01:56.300Many artists will describe creation as capturing an emotion like pain and translating it for the world to see.
00:02:02.600So oftentimes, people find themselves in this ridiculous trap where they attempt to use their depression to make something great.
00:02:09.340They believe that in order to depict emotion, they must be an emotional person.
00:02:14.180This is how we find ridiculous tragedies like Basquiat overdosing at 27 or Vincent Van Gogh slicing his ear off.
00:02:21.220But David Lynch was the one who said you don't need to be in a state of pain to create.
00:02:25.140A truly depressed person is not capable of even getting out of bed.
00:02:28.860Ideas are not found in a place of misery, but in some state of introspection that we all have.
00:02:34.080Somewhere between unconscious and conscious.
00:02:36.300Capturing and translating these ideas are not reserved for the talented, but instead for those who are able to understand their minds better.
00:03:44.260The white picket fence in beautiful suburbia with fire trucks and ice cream cones.
00:03:48.940But underneath the surface, there's a bubbling sense of evil capitalism that we all know and can't describe perfectly.
00:03:56.020Blue Velvet captures how with light there's always dark.
00:03:58.780The beautiful Norman Rockwell painting.
00:04:01.000American family sharing Thanksgiving dinner by the fireplace.
00:04:04.560And all the disgusting, bubbling evil beneath the surface that goes with it.
00:04:08.400It's not a commentary on the evils of American capitalism.
00:04:11.440But instead how we cannot show anything beautiful without an equally amount of disgusting.
00:04:16.440Then I would watch Mulholland Drive, what was supposed to be a television show that he scrapped and turned into a feature film that will never be accurately described by anybody including David Lynch.
00:04:27.700This is a film I'm sure that he would never even be able to make sense of.
00:04:30.940But if you ever analyzed your dreams, something would click.
00:04:35.120If Mulholland Drive is a dream sequence visualized, then maybe that's exactly what cinema should be.
00:04:40.140All of it is artificial and it's trying to recreate what we have already seen through introspection.
00:04:45.940And although no piece of art will ever be able to recreate what we see when we're not awake, this is the closest I've ever seen to it.
00:04:52.780Then I would watch his first film, Eraserhead, which he describes as his most spiritual film.
00:04:57.900If you go into this movie first, you might never watch another David Lynch because it is by far the weirdest and ugliest thing he's ever produced.
00:05:05.800It's disgusting, it's off-putting, it's visually appalling, but for some reason you can't take your eyes away if you truly respect what he's doing.
00:05:14.980Once you watch Eraserhead, you could watch any film student or any director's first short film and understand why it's so terrible and what they were trying to do.
00:05:24.660Once you earn those stripes, I think you deserve the ability to watch Twin Peaks in its entirety.
00:05:28.980Something that I can undeniably feel the influence of Stanley Kubrick in, but is one of the best examples of somebody's inner workings of their mind captured on camera.
00:05:39.320Not only does Twin Peaks have one of the best soundtracks of all time, but if you ever wanted to see an artist vomit their entire brain on camera, that's that television show.
00:05:49.500If you're not American and you ever flew on a plane from New York City to L.A., looking out the window at all the cornfields wondering, who lives here?
00:05:58.800A common theme I found throughout David Lynch's work is none of the ideas make sense until they're actually visualized.
00:06:05.660And when someone else attempts to match that ambition, it comes off actually nonsensical.
00:06:10.680It works for David Lynch because it's honest with himself.
00:06:13.680On paper, this guy does not describe an interesting artist.
00:06:16.900He did not have a tragic upbringing and came up in nowhere America.
00:06:21.040On a global scale, many people can look at his life and describe him as a boring, average guy.
00:06:26.240But the reason he's so captivating is because of his honesty.
00:06:29.740And people often mistake honesty for oversharing the most benign aspects of their life that are boring to anybody except a paid therapist.
00:06:37.500Without David Lynch, we wouldn't understand that honesty only comes through introspection.
00:06:41.740Creativity is not exclusive to those who are naturally gifted, but to those who are able to capture ideas in a place of our brains that we all have access to.
00:06:51.020It's starting to snow a lot. It looks kind of nice, doesn't it?