He directed the romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also known for directing the space opera Dune (1984), the surrealist drama Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006).

Over his long career, Lynch has offered his own locomotive thrills. It begins with that unmistakable voice — what the director Mel Brooks once called his “kind of crazy Midwestern accent.” In fact, Lynch's family moved frequently, and his childhood unfurled across a wide swath of midcentury America.

David Lynch and Mark Frost wrote all the episodes, and Lynch directed. Frost emphasized that the new episodes were not a remake or reboot, but a continuation of the series and film, and the passage of 25 years is an important element of the plot.

Film-maker David Lynch says is not retiring after he said that is now too ill to direct films in person and could only work on projects remotely. In an interview with Sight and Sound magazine, Lynch said: “I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, and so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out.