Editing David Lynch (section)

===Tributes===
Lynch's collaborators [[Nicolas Cage]], Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, and Ray Wise wrote tributes to him.<ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Naomi Watts Says 'Mulholland Drive' Director David Lynch 'Put Me On The Map' |url=https://deadline.com/2025/01/naomi-watts-david-lynch-death-1236259323/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117015520/https://deadline.com/2025/01/naomi-watts-david-lynch-death-1236259323/ |archive-date=January 17, 2025 |accessdate=January 16, 2025 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Michaela|last=Zee |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kyle-machlachlan-tribute-david-lynch-twin-peaks-1236276263/ |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Kyle MacLachlan Says 'I Owe My Entire Career' and Life to 'Blue Velvet' and 'Twin Peaks' Director David Lynch; Naomi Watts Says 'My Heart Is Broken'|website=[[Variety (magazine)| Variety]] |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> MacLachlan honored Lynch with a tribute in ''The New York Times.''<ref name=MacLachlan>{{Cite news |last=MacLachlan |first=Kyle |author-link=Kyle MacLachlan |date=2025-01-19 |title=Opinion {{!}} Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/opinion/kyle-maclachlan-david-lynch.html |access-date=2025-01-29 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He wrote: "I was willing to follow him anywhere because joining him on the journey of discovery, searching and finding together, was the whole point. I stepped out into the unknown because I knew David was floating out there with me... I will miss my dear friend. He has made my world—all of our worlds—both wonderful and strange".<ref name=MacLachlan/> The [[WGAw|WGA]] announced that MacLachlan would posthumously give Lynch the [[Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Lynch to Posthumously Receive WGAW's 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement |url=https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/press/david-lynch-to-posthumously-receive-wgaw-2025-laurel-award-for-screenwriting-achievement |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.wga.org |language=en}}</ref>

Steven Spielberg wrote of directing Lynch in ''The Fabelmans'': "Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch—playing one of my heroes [...] The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will."<ref>{{cite web |last=Shafer |first=Ellise |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Steven Spielberg Honors David Lynch as Hollywood Mourns a Film Icon: 'The World Is Going to Miss Such an Original and Unique Voice' |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-remembered-steven-spielberg-1236276104/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250116221206/https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-remembered-steven-spielberg-1236276104/ |archive-date=January 16, 2025 |accessdate=January 16, 2025 |website=Variety}}</ref> [[Martin Scorsese]] wrote a statement that read in part, "He put images on the screen unlike anything that I or anybody else had ever seen—he made everything strange, uncanny, revelatory and new."<ref>{{cite web |last=Bergeson |first=Samantha |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Martin Scorsese, and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch: 'He Made Everything Strange, Uncanny, Revelatory, and New' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/david-lynch-tributes-1235085685/ |accessdate=January 16, 2025 |website=[[IndieWire]]}}</ref> Tributes were also paid by [[Judd Apatow]], [[Mel Brooks]], [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Terry Gilliam]], [[James Gunn]], [[Ron Howard]], [[Patton Oswalt]], [[Pedro Pascal]], [[Billy Corgan]], [[Questlove]], and [[Ben Stiller]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Lexi |last=Carson |date=January 16, 2025 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-lynch-dead-steven-spielberg-james-gunn-1236110937/ |title=Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, James Gunn and More Pay Tribute to David Lynch: He 'Inspired So Many of Us' |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Brendan |last=Morrow |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/01/16/david-lynch-dead-celebrity-tributes/77749774007/ |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Steven Spielberg, 'Twin Peaks' star Kyle MacLachlan, more remember David Lynch|website=[[USA Today]]|accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> 

Critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' eulogized Lynch as "the great American [[surrealist]]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Peter |title=David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-the-great-american-surrealist-who-made-experimentalism-mainstream |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=January 17, 2025|date=16 January 2025}}</ref> Critic [[Richard Brody]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote, "many films are called revelatory and visionary, but Lynch's films seem made to exemplify these terms", citing his "audacious invention and exquisite realization of symbolic details and uncanny realms".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Brody |first1=Richard |title=How David Lynch Became an Icon of Cinema |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/how-david-lynch-became-an-icon-of-cinema |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 17, 2025 |access-date=7 March 2025}}</ref>

Lynch's oft-chosen self-description was "Eagle Scout, Missoula, Montana".<ref name="Hoberman" />