Director David Lynch learned a vital lesson when his version of Dune was done. Speaking to NPR ‘s Wild Card with Rachel Martin , Lynch responded to a question about the greatest failure that he learned from. He nominated his 1984 film , Dune.
“I knew already one should have final cut before signing on to do a film,” he said. “But for some reason, I thought everything would be OK, and I didn’t put final cut in my contract. And as it turned out, Dune wasn’t the film I wanted to make, because I didn’t have a final say.
Related Stories News David Lynch's New Project Is An Album And Music Video With 'Twin Peaks: The Return' Star Chrystabell News David Lynch Teases "Something Is Coming" June 5 In A Cryptic Video Message On X/Twitter “So that’s a lesson I knew even before, but now there’s no way. Why would anyone work for three years on something that wasn’t yours? Why? Why do that? Why? I died a death. And it was all my fault for not knowing to put that in the contract.
” Lynch, age 78, plans to release a new album with the artist Chrystabell in August. The new music is complicated, as might be expected from a Lynch project, and he says even he was turned off initially. But “second hearing, a little bit less.
Third hearing, beauty.” The album’s title, Cellophane Memories , refers to the way the music moved him. “It just clicked as being like a friend.
And it conjures memories ...
in listening to this, all these way-distant memories started bubbling up.