David Lynch Unsure if He'll Ever Be Able to Direct Again After Receiving Diagnosis
justjared.comDavid Lynch isn’t sure if he will ever be able to direct again. The 78-year-old Twin Peaks director was diagnosed with emphysema from “smoking for so long,” via an interview with Sight & Sound. “I’m homebound whether I like it or not.
I can’t go out. And I can only walk a short distance before I’m out of oxygen,” he added. Keep reading to find out more… “Smoking was something that I absolutely loved, but in the end, it bit me,” he admitted. “It was part of the art life for me: the tobacco and the smell of it, and lighting things and smoking and going back and sitting back and having a smoke and looking at your work, or thinking about things.” “Nothing like it in this world is so beautiful.
Meanwhile, it’s killing me. So I had to quit,” he said. He isn’t ruling out directing altogether, but his options are limited. “I like to be amongst the things and get ideas there.
But I would try to do it remotely, if it comes to it,” he said before referencing an animated project he pitched to Netflix called Snootworld.
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