Werner Herzog says contact with David Lynch became “difficult” as he became absorbed by transcendental meditation

Werner Herzog has spoken about how contact with David Lynch became “difficult” in his later years due to his dedication to transcendental meditation. READ MORE: David Lynch – 1946-2025: a true visionary who reinvented cinema The director’s forthcoming movie Bucking Fastard is dedicated to the late Twin Peaks creator. The film is said to be based on a real-life story of Joan and Jean, twin sisters who live together on the fringes of society and stars real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara. Speaking in a new interview with IndieWire, Herzog said he wanted to show Lynch the film, and wasn’t able to before he died. Herzog put this down to having less contact with Lynch in his later years due to the director moving “completely into transcendental meditation”. “There was a deep respect for each other’s work, although we are so different in what our output is. I had the feeling, ‘Oh, he should be the first one to watch the film with me’, he explained. “And I think one shouldn’t read too much into it. In the last years, contact with David was difficult because he had been moving completely into transcendental meditation. And, for example, speaking to him across a table, he would have a pho...