Absolutely agree. There's an emotional core to his best films and Lynch never cheapens it. And he definitely has a knack for getting great performances from his actors. Dennis Hopper never bettered his performance in Blue Velvet. Ditto John Hurt in The Elephant Man. And so on. Sheryl Lee's performance in Fire Walk With Me (his most underated film imo) is incredible. The actors have to take ultimate credit for that but it was Lynch who found a way of drawing it out of them.
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