7. He kept dead mice in his freezer
David Lynch was an artist first, and a film-maker second (later, he’d also be a photographer, a songwriter and musician, a furniture designer and many other things). He would create works of visual art right up to his final days, but the most infamous would remain his “kits” – a pair of pieces he made in the late 1970s and early 80s, in which parts of a real, dissected animal (first a fish, then a chicken) were pinned to a board, along with kid-friendly instructions on how to reassemble and play with it. David Lynch has your number. But does it add up? Read more
Later he would tell an interviewer that he was in the early stages of planning a mouse kit, with the requisite parts bagged up in his freezer. Sadly, this never came to pass, but Lynch woul