Eraserhead

“Oh we have here, I know that probably a million people talk about Eraserhead but this was my first experience of David Lynch and I was probably way too young to see it. Freaked me out, I couldn't quite wrap my head around what was going on but to me it was one of the gateways into this whole world of art House film. Just having that idea of there are other things besides Hollywood movies and the fact that movies don't always have to make you feel a certain way.”

“David Lynch’s film Eraserhead. Very American and saying some really interesting kind of sublime things about American culture and the American ethos and zeitgeist that you wouldn’t see in a Hollywood film, but you also wouldn’t see it in a European film. This is a really special film that had a big impact on me. I can’t say that it was an influence because I had already been making films by this time, but it was… it was significant for me. And I met David and we got along very well.”

“I like thinking about David Lynch before he was David Lynch, when he was just some dude in a warehouse using all of his savings and essentially abandoning his family to make a movie that at the time I can't imagine that too many people understood. Filmmaking is an act of faith and I think it's beautiful to imagine someone like Lynch putting it all on the line to make something as insane as his first feature film, Eraserhead.”

“Next is Eraserhead, which I love. I love Eraserhead, it’s my favorite Lynch. It was actually the only Lynch I’d ever seen for a very long time. So inspiring to me to this day, was super inspiring for the last album that I put out. It left such a mark on me. And yeah, I don’t know. I love, love, love, love Eraserhead. And hopefully someday I can… I aspire to create something even as half as good as Eraserhead. Love you Eraserhead baby.”

“Eraserhead. This is David Lynch's debut but I remember watching this and getting to the end and being like I have no idea what this film is about but I love it. It's so bold, it's surreal, it's fantasy, it's you're in a dream state. It feels like you're probably on five different drugs at the same time. Like I don't know what David Lynch was thinking about when he wrote it. If your love of horror and you're looking for a new language, this is going to give you your new language.”

“Ce que j'aime aussi énormément c'est David Lynch et son pouvoir de l'image tout jeune ça c'est un de ses premiers films et on voit bien il s'inspire du cinéma muet de la poésie du cinéma muet et comme ça avec une lumière fantasmagorique et moi je m'inspire beaucoup de ça aussi et je crois que je me suis inspiré pour un plan d'anatomie de l'enfer totalement de Eraserhead...”