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I like to take my time with things.
I went to high school in Minnesota.
I'm a realist about how the networks work.
Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.
I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.
We've learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility.
I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.
The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.
Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.
'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.
To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.
Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.
There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.
As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.
What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?
Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.
I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.
I don't normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I'm not a binge-watcher by nature myself.
It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.
We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.
As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish
When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.
There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.
In a business that's driven purely by economics, the fact that one or two unique shows happen to get on and reach a public for a brief time doesn't constitute a trend.
The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.
The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We're coming back with season three of 'Twin Peaks' after a 25-year absence.
People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'
I want something that's going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about and chew over. That's the real objective here; it creates something that doesn't feel disposable.
There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.
A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.