David Lynch: “Feature films have fallen on hard times these days. And it’s sad, but it’s the reality. I always say now, cable television is the new arthouse."

“Twin Peaks: The Return” was an unequivocal triumph for David Lynch, but we always want to know what’s next for the legendary director and in a recent interview he gave us a little hint:

“I have a box of ideas, and I’m working with producer Sabrina Sutherland, kind of trying to go through and see if there’s any gold in those boxes,” said the filmmaker.

However, don't count on it being a feature film: 

"Feature films have fallen through hard times these days. And it’s sad, but it’s the reality. I always say now, cable television is the new arthouse. People have freedom and can make a continuing story. It’s pretty beautiful, but it’s not the big screen, so there’s a little bit of sorrow in the picture and a little bit of sorrow in the sound,” he explains.

So will he go back to 'Twin Peaks"?

“Well, for right now, you could say I don’t want to talk about that.”

However, the most interesting quote for me was Lynch discussing "Fire Walk With Me" a film known as the nadir of his career, alongside "Dune," of course:

“With ‘Dune,’ I sold out on that early on, because I didn’t have final cut, and it was a commercial failure, so I died two times with that. With ‘Fire Walk With Me,’ it didn’t go over well at the time, but I loved it so I only died once, for the commercial failure and the reviews and things. But, over time, it’s changed. So now, people have revisited that film, and they feel differently about it. When a thing comes out, the feeling in the world—you could call it the collective consciousness—is a certain way, and so it dictates how the thing’s going to go. Then the collective consciousness changes and people come around. Look at Van Gogh: the guy could not sell one painting and now nobody can afford them.”