Elmes tells IndieWire about "haunting dark corners" with the late filmmaker on "Eraserhead" and the great feedback Lynch gave him at the "Blue Velvet" DGA premiere.

Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who brought surrealist storytelling to the mainstream via 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' has died. He was 78.