Biography

Daughter of director David Lynch and painter Peggy Reavey. Her parents divorced when she was 6.

Wrote "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer", a best-selling Twin Peaks (1990) tie-in book.

Lynch made history at the New York City Horror Film Festival when she became the first female to win the Best Director award in the festival's history in 2008.

Moved to Los Angeles as age 19 in order to work for her father.

Became close friends with Sherilyn Fenn while working together in Boxing Helena (1993).

I like a good story at a good diner over good coffee and a good idea and a whole day to think about it.

I think walking around reminding yourself that you're a woman is only going to get you in trouble. Women in film, the way they've been treated, certainly parts of it are a shame, but they took the paycheque, they played the roles, and if they don't want to do it anymore, we need to start saying no, and different roles will come up.

(On her film Boxing Helena (1993)): "It's a metaphor and a comedy".

On Boxing Helena (1993) - I see it as a love story, not a horror film. The image of Venus de Milo is so powerful. Obsessive love is like a series of amputations as you steal from one another. It's inviting, exciting, animalistic. I've been there; I've been drawn to it.

About her car accident and spinal surgeries - The fact that I get to walk down the red carpet tonight and hold my daughter's hand is a big deal - they didn't even know if I'd walk at one point.