Just meeting David...
It was such a spectacular time for me.
Even though I'd been working for so many years,
to have somebody like him recognise my talent...
I remember when I went in,
he had a big table with nothing on it but my picture.
You know how spare David is. He's a minimalist in every way.
And I knew he wanted me. He was sure he wanted me for that part.
That gave me an unbelievable amount of confidence in my work.
And any time I worked on any scene, for the two years I was working on it,
it was a catharsis,
it was a real creative empowerment for me. Every scene I did.
My God. You didn't get to work with him every time though, did you?
No. Well, I did every show that he did.
In the beginning he did quite a few. And he did the pilot, of course.
He did quite a few in the beginning.
When he wasn't there
we missed him terribly.
We tried,
but it was not the same without David.
I think he knew that.
Plus, when we first started the show,
no one really knew who David Lynch was.
The show went craZy so fast
that he started to get a lot of press.
And he's a very shy man.
That was hard on him
to be that much of a focus.
That's not his thing, usually.
I was in India. I had done the pilot,
and I had gone to India.
Someone got a newspaper in Bombay
and said, "Look, you have a hit show."
I'd had no idea. I was there for four months, and came back to a hit show.