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I saw elvis live in '54. it was at the big d jamboree in dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when i first saw that david lynch film. there was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.
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I Saw Elvis Live In '54. It

Roy Orbison
I saw elvis live in '54. it was at the big d jamboree in dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when i first saw that david lynch film. there was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.
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I was very scared when i saw it, because dune was for me very important in my life. i was very sad i could not do it. when i saw that david lynch would do it, i was very scared, because i admire him as a movie-maker, and i thought he would do well. but when i see the picture, i realize he never understood this picture. it's not a david lynch picture. it's the producer who made that picture, no? who made this horror. for david lynch, it was a job. a commercial job. it never was that for me.
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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.
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I realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know? it's important to make new things. it's important to make culture, rather than simply reference it. i love a good cultural reference, and it's one of the great joys in my life, but it has to all be in balance with the core job, which is to make something new. and that sort of brings me around to why i started talking about my fondness for marijuana.
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