SOURCE: Lynch, David, and Psychology Today. “Naked Lynch.” Psychology Today 30, no. 2 (March-April 1997): 29-33, 74.

In the following interview, Lynch discusses Lost Highway and his creative process.

Famous for evoking the eerie undertow of everyday life, David Lynch—the director whose films include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and who created the television show Twin Peaks—fearlessly projects his own psyche onto the screen. But the man with the eccentric sensibility says we shouldn't read anything into the fact that in his latest effort, Lost Highway, he takes on the meaning of identity.

[Psychology Today]:Do you think there's a dividing line between the people who get what you do, and the people who have a harder time?

[Lynch]: I think people think they have a hard time, but it's because—and this is a very general statement—most films are pretty easily understood. So [our] mechanism for interpretation...