Blue Velvet

“This is very important to me. Not only because we’re honoring David Lynch these days, but my Mother plays Kyle MacLachlan’s Mother in Blue Velvet. Mom’s 100 years old now and still going strong, and she and I do this kind of film sessions at her assisted-living facility, and Blue Velvet was one of them. So mom and I will be watching this together again.”

“Blue Velvet. This is Isabella Rossellini. She’s been on my runway, the loveliest lady ever. And, whoo, is she… a wicked, wild, mysteriously strange woman in this movie. Just… gorgeous. Frightening, but a different kind of frightening than Silence of the Lambs. This frightening I kind of like because it’s… it’s just so glamorous and beautifully visually done. You almost feel the Blue Velvet part of it. It’s just… It’s wonderful. I love it.”

“I wanted to pick a David Lynch as a tribute to Harry Dean Stanton, who we sadly lost recently. I got to meet him at the Paramount 100th anniversary photograph. And he was so sweet and so nice and so normal, so not the guy that you thought would come up with stuff like Blue Velvet, which is an insanely disturbing movie. I showed this to my daughter the other day and she hated it. But she hated it for exactly the reasons that David Lynch wanted you to hate it.”

“I’m going to take Blue Velvet, even though she wasn’t on my list because we love David Lynch.”

“Blue Velvet. Well-known film by David Lynch. It gave a picture into a world that sometimes was familiar from watching TV. You’ve seen old white picket fences and a lot of America as, you know, portrayed through the films of the ’50s and the ’60s. But then you add this kind of violence and a sexuality in it which was really unusual, you know... I think I wrote an essay about this as part of the kind of entrance exam. It changed my view of films and it also changed my life.”

“This is the movie that I think for better or worse kind of really pushed me over the edge and made me go I want to be an actor... It has this kind of very great simple kind of noir story to it... I get so caught up in all the wonderful detail and the wonderful acting in it and it's got probably my favorite Performance in any movie, I would say Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in this movie. He achieved something just off the charts amazing.”

“The candy-coated sandman, Blue Velvet. This is one of my favorite movies. There’s certain directors that... They’re the star of the movie. Where you watch a movie and you’re like, 'Who’s the dude that made this movie?' And this is one of those movies that, when I saw it, I was like, 'Who’s that guy?' And I have a crazy connection to this movie because I had a friend of mine... She had the ear in a jar on her desk. She worked at the Picture Factory, David Lynch’s company, in L. A. At the time.”

“Now this one Blue Velvet was kind of the kind of a rebirth for me because we done Dune together in 83 and Dune didn't really turn out that well in fact I was kind of after that it was sort of I felt like I was a Pariah in the business no work no nothing but David bless his heart he'd given me the script to Blue Velvet when we were filming while we were filming Dune in Mexico City and I read it and I was like whoa this is this is very intense and I really liked it...”

“Then I'm taking Blue Velvet because I love just the look of Blue Velvet and David Lynch and it's just something I like to watch on the Weekend and it's, I don't know, it's a good evening, yeah.”