MTV.com has an interview with renegade director David Lynch, creator of the guerrilla-style, Sony PD-150-sourced Inland Empire. I just love Lynch’s unrelenting indie attitude…

“I think there’s a slight trend toward embracing new cinema, non-Hollywood blockbuster cinema. It’s not erupting, but because of the Internet, I think people have more of a chance to get buzz going on alternative cinema, so I think it’s hopeful out there. It just hasn’t penetrated the smaller places.”

He also has strong feelings about directorial and creative control:

MTV: “… Are you ever tempted to relinquish a little control in order to have access to a bigger budget?”

Lynch: “Never! Never! Never! Money could never make up for dying the death of seeing what could have been and not making it that way. Maybe it’s because I came from painting, but it’s just theater of the absurd. The filmmaker doesn’t have the final say. It’s absurd! A nightmare, a horror! Why would anyone do that?”

Great interview, and surprisingly insightful coming from MTV…

(Via Flippant News)