From The Desk Of David Lynch

Where do ideas come from? If we're talking about David Lynch's ideas, I'd assume they come from somewhere around the nexus of madness, genius, and near-evil. But as the director explains in this interview, that's not the case. Apparently, ideas come from bubbling up and hitting your consciousness ball, or from a man throwing puzzle pieces at you... and they definitely don't come from artistic suffering, because that would be like Van Gogh painting while constantly fighting intense diarrhea.