But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative structure disintegrate and a narrative artist freeze up and try to shuck and jive when the plot reached a point where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed (just imagine the fear: this disintegration was happening on national TV).