Which is just one reason why there will never be another David Lynch. A movie like this would have ended most directors' careers, but he made the most surreal independent movie ever, and it endeared him to millions. Who does that? David Lynch, which is why he'll be so incredibly missed.

Many of Lynch’s movies travel from a familiar outside world into a strange inner one. The structure of “Room to Dream,” which alternates between third-person accounts of Lynch’s life written by Kristine McKenna,

His visceral films, which reflect the best and worst of American life, affected viewers in realms both conscious and unconscious.

A few parting thoughts on one of the greats.