I was called at my home
and asked to meet my father and Mark Frost at Mark's house.
I was brought in to one of the back rooms
and the door was closed, and there was a moment of silence
before I was told that I was one of three air-breathing mammals
to know who the killer was.
And I won't say specifically what I was told,
but I can tell you that I was then one of three smiling people in that room.
I was given a list of characters to create in the diary
and I was given a semblance of ideas
certainly about where the show was going to go.
But the beauty of it was that...
In fact, in the same meeting during which I was told
who the killer was to be, I was given so much creative freedom.
And I was just told, basically:
"These are the people that we need to have mentioned,
and do with them what you will." So it was a real gift.
I mean, I really got to build Laura as I wanted to.
It was a good feeling.
One thing I've been asked a few times
is whether or not anything in the diary
is from my own life.
And I can tell you that there are two things
specifically in the diary from my own life.
But I'm only willing to tell you one of them.
And one of them is that the dream
of Laura sitting in a corner of a room with a rat
that she knows is going to come and bite her foot off.
So she bites her own foot off instead, rather than have the rat bite it off.
That's mine.
Now I share it with her.
The second season, some of the people...
Mrs. Tremond from Meals on Wheels. - Who appear in the diary
and then we actually see in second season,
are relevant, you know, for a lot of different reasons,
some of which I'll mention.
I think that, you know,
Laura had such an instinct about herself
and a sadness about her own behavior.
And yet a bewilderment.
And so she still had the hope in her
that by accomplishing some redeeming acts,
she could be somehow forgiven and saved, if you will.
Mrs. Tremond is sort of the perfect example
of someone who might be forgiving of someone like Laura.
And Laura, I think, wanted to live as long as Mrs. Tremond.
So I think the whole Meals on Wheels experience
is a manifestation of how to give back and redeem oneself.
And try and be as pure as possible.
All the while knowing that behind your smile
there's this, you know, great weight and darkness.
Twin Peaks has really stood the test of time,
I think, for the most part.
And quite simply
because it is so much about how memory stands out.
It's got today, it's got yesterday, and it is the embodiment
of what we remember of our day, of our youth,
of what we anticipate about growing old.
And it is a very careful selection
that is very subtly, I think, planned out to be potent
to the mind and to the heart.
And I think it's relevant and will continue to be relevant
today, tomorrow, and, you know, ten years from now.