'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
'Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.
I can't say I've watched 'Twin Peaks.' I feel like I wouldn't be comfortable doing so until after I'm done with 'Riverdale.'
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.
As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.
I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.
Star Trek' always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with 'Twin Peaks,' you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.
'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
My favorite - and I've said this before, I know - but my favorite TV show of all time is 'Twin Peaks.'
I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.
As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.'
Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.
Some bands I'm obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn't happened with Twin Peaks.
The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We're coming back with season three of 'Twin Peaks' after a 25-year absence.
Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent
'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
I'll tell you, 'Fire Walk With Me' is the one for 'Twin Peaks' fans. It's much more haunted than the TV series.
For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
Man, 'Twin Peaks' ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.
I don't know if we would have stuff like 'Deadwood' and 'Boardwalk Empire' if 'Twin Peaks' had never happened.
It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.
I don't mean to brag, but David Lynch said he was looking for the most incredible face he could find. I actually met him at a 'Twin Peaks' party, and he was like, 'Look at that face!'
I'm sure 'Boxing Helena' will eclipse 'Twin Peaks' and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.
Without 'Twin Peaks,' there would have been no 'Northern Exposure,' 'Picket Fences,' 'X-Files' or 'Alias.' It started the movement of 'off-center' television.
'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
Those of us who were on 'Twin Peaks' can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and we have a playful energy together.
I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.
'Twin Peaks' is like a movie; 'China Beach' is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.
The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.
I'm a huge 'Twin Peaks' fan.
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time.
'Twin Peaks' was my gateway for David Lynch.
If everything else falls apart and I'm broke, in 20 years I'll still be able to do 'Twin Peaks' conventions.
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.
'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.
That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
A lot of people always look back at 'Twin Peaks' and say that was the start of this explosion we've had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.
In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.
I loved the movie 'Heathers' and the TV show 'Twin Peaks.'
Gravity Falls' has so much inspiration that comes from 'Twin Peaks,' the idea of Agent Cooper being the one to drive Dipper and Mabel home made me feel like, yeah, they're going to be all right.
I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'
I was doing 'Twin Peaks,' and Columbia called and said they wanted me to do 'Gladiator.' I thought it had the potential to be a real commercial film, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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