David Lynch—the visionary director of Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire —has died. His family announced the filmmaker’s death in

My heart is broken. My Buddy Dave…” began Mulholland Drive star Naomi Watts on Instagram about the death of that pic’s filmmaker David Lynch today. “The world will not be the same without him. His creative mentorship was truly powerful,

The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."

His projects made appearances on the Billboard charts throughout the years, and he directed several music videos for artists including Nine Inch Nails and Moby.

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

The world needs a new Bob Dylan for an age that has become too "cynical," Timothée Chalamet said while presenting the new biographical film. | TAG24

A lot of times it’s like the picture is there and my hand is writing as fast as possible because I see the talking," said David Lynch.

The director, who was 78, was known for films and TV shows like 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks.'

David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday, was my motion picture lodestar. When his 1977 movie Eraserhead played at an obscure film festival, now long gone, in Woolwich, London, it was like nirvana for a kid raised on The Sound of Music,

We truly enter fantasy land when Dylan plays at Gerde’s Folk City – an open-mic night with Joan Baez, where Seeger is MC. It’s supposed to be September 1961, but at this time Baez is already a national sensation with chart-topping albums,

Underneath the darkness and surrealism, the work of David Lynch contained a pure, earnest belief in beauty and love. He will be missed.

A spectacular haul of Bob Dylan memorabilia, including early drafts of the singer and songwriter’s number 1 hit “Mr. Tambourine Man” and an original oil painting, will soon go under the hammer.