"It comes from my own personal desire to not know anything before I see a film," Lynch says about why he's keeping the story under such tight wraps, an ethos so serious that several of the cast and crew won't be permitted to speak about Twin Peaks on the record until after the season ends in September. "I want to experience it in a pure way and be taken into a world, letting it go where it takes you. It takes you where it wants to take you, and it's a beautiful, beautiful experience. It's very precious, and the more you know, it sort of takes away from that full experience."
Lynch is so committed to keeping the show's secrets that he won't say whether the upcoming third season paves the way for a fourth. ("I'm not allowed to speak about this," he says.) He won't weigh in on any of the new characters, either. ("I don't know if I can really get into that," he offers coyly, punctuating the mystery with a quick laugh.) He's tight-lipped on the casting process, too, with the series involving more than 200 actors, including franchise newcomers (albeit Lynch veterans) Laura Dern and Naomi Watts. "You try to get the right person for the part, and that's it," he says. "Pure and simple. So much of filmmaking is common sense."
"I see it as a film," he says. "I think if you think about it as one whole that's been divided, it's a little different than thinking about it as one episode after another. It's just a little bit different."
