I became involved with the show,
I got a call from Mark Frost, who I didn't know,
saying that they were putting directors together for the series.
I had known David in the early days of the American Film Institute
and River's Edge had come out a year or two before.
And he said he was interested in my working on the show.
We met at DuPar's or someplace in the Valley.
And had a nice lunch
and then they booked me on episode four, I guess it was.
That went very well.
There was a feeling that, you know,
it was among the better of the early episodes.
And then they brought me back
to do number nine which was the big show
and then at the very end I did the next to the last show.
That whole last beauty pageant sequence
was very elaborate, of course
and beyond that because the pace of the show at that point was so slow
and you were very limited in the number of shots and setups
that you could get in any one given day,
it became an exercise on how to do a very elaborate sequence
in the fewest number of shots.
We certainly had two cameras rolling at all times.
I daresay we might well have had a C camera
simply to catch so much action without having to restage it.
All the special effects in Twin Peaks were largely generated on set.
It was just a way of getting the biggest bang for the buck.
You know, by out of necessity.
I think Twin Peaks endures because it was so original.
And also largely because of David's sensibility.
I mean, David has a knack for doing stuff
that has a kind of ordinariness on the surface
but is anything but ordinary.
So somehow he manages to put his finger right on your soul.
And, you know, has the ability to make ordinary things resonate
in a very dark way.
But that said, you know,
it just seemed like it had a great combination of elements
that worked together in the way of these things.
When they do click and they just hit their time,
and the ensemble cast,
and the sort of strange hypnotic murder mystery
that everybody wanted to get to the end of.
Not, you know, ever knowing
if there really would be any sort of traditional narrative end to it.