Monday, March 05, 2012

Television and Cinema Verities # 9



...you can go deeper and deeper into a world and discover more and more things. A feature film has an ending. A continuing story doesn't. Eventually it could, but it can just go and go and go, and if the ideas keep flowing, it can be pretty thrilling."

- Director David Lynch compares film to television, in relation to Twin Peaks (1990 - 1991)
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