David Lynch Unsure if He'll Ever Be Able to Direct Again After Receiving Diagnosis
David Lynch isn’t sure if he will ever be able to direct again.
The 78-year-old Twin Peaks director was diagnosed with emphysema from “smoking for so long,” via an interview with Sight & Sound.
“I’m homebound whether I like it or not. I can’t go out. And I can only walk a short distance before I’m out of oxygen,” he added.
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“Smoking was something that I absolutely loved, but in the end, it bit me,” he admitted. “It was part of the art life for me: the tobacco and the smell of it, and lighting things and smoking and going back and sitting back and having a smoke and looking at your work, or thinking about things.”
“Nothing like it in this world is so beautiful. Meanwhile, it’s killing me. So I had to quit,” he said.
He isn’t ruling out directing altogether, but his options are limited.
“I like to be amongst the things and get ideas there. But I would try to do it remotely, if it comes to it,” he said before referencing an animated project he pitched to Netflix called Snootworld.
He still hopes to at least bring his unproduced 2010 screenplay Antelope Don’t Run No More to life.
His most recent major project was the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks for Showtime. He also spoke out after his comments were taken out of context about Trump.