The famous director David Lynch said that he is now too ill to direct films live and that he can only work on remote projects.
"I got emphysema because I smoked for so long and now I'm housebound whether I like it or not. I can't go out. And I can only walk a short distance before I run out of air," the director revealed in interview for "Sight and Sound" magazine.
"Because of covid, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even from a cold. So I would probably direct from my house... And I wouldn't really like that. I like to be where the action is happening and to get ideas there. But I would try to do the film remotely, if necessary," he added.
Lynch's last work was the TV series "Twin Peaks: The Return", which contained 18 episodes and was released in 2017.
His last feature film was "Inland Empire," released in 2007. Lynch's unfinished projects include the script for the feature film "Antelope Don't Run No More," which was reportedly completed in 2010, and a rumored series he was reportedly developing for Netflix in 2020. .
In the aforementioned interview, Lynch said that he had a complicated relationship with the cause of his health problems.
"Smoking was something I absolutely loved, but eventually it 'bitten' me. It was part of the artistic life for me: tobacco and the smell of it, lighting and smoking and going back and smoking and looking at my work, or thinking about things; nothing like that in the world is so nice. In the meantime, it's killing me. So I had to stop," he concluded.
Lynch is considered one of the greatest directors of his time, known for surreal films that often seem like dreams. His most famous titles are "Mulholland Drive", "Blue Velvet", "The Elephant Man"...
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