Words matter. These are the best Mark Frost Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That’s why I’m more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
It’s best to know a little about where you’re coming from and why you’ve arrived where you are.
People forget that in the early ’70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and ‘All in the Family.’
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We’re usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don’t understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.
My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!
As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can’t just live in the present.
The whole mythological side of ‘Twin Peaks’ was really down to me, and I’ve always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century – W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
I don’t want to get stale. I’m always interested in new things.
I like to take my time with things.
Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions – whether it’s something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.
I’ve always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.
To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.
I don’t know if I’ll have a better friend than Bill Paxton.
One of the things that’s unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
There’s a part of ‘Twin Peaks’ that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
I wasn’t overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
I want something that’s going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about and chew over. That’s the real objective here; it creates something that doesn’t feel disposable.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
The architecture for ‘Paladin’ – given that it’s at least three books, with the possibility of more – turned out to be bigger than anything I’ve ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
We’ve learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility.
When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that’s the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.
When you’re writing about one community, in a way, you’re writing about all communities.
I think you can safely say that the mystery in ‘Twin Peaks’ as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.
I don’t normally associate bingeing of any kind with healthy results in life. And I’m not a binge-watcher by nature myself.
The sport was right in the center of these changing social dynamics. It was a game invented by blue-collar people in Scotland but adopted by the elite in England and America. All of those conflicts were coming into the open. I was amazed to find out how much was played out in golf as well.
As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.
I don’t think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
