Dave Eggers

And that's why David Lynch, he's the perfect exemplar of this.

I'm sure he has no idea why he did certain things.

And it wasn't coming from the intellectual part of himself.

It was coming from like, I don't know, there's going to be this black lacquered box and then there's a key.

And then there's tiny people that are behind the diner and they come out like...

These are all dream things that he didn't question, that he realized in three-dimensional space and on film.

And we know exactly what he's doing.

He's the only sort of real dream artist, I think, out there on film.

And why is it everybody else...

constrains it and puts it into a more rational form.

Maybe even well prior to him.

For sure.

Why is there a dead person in the restaurant over there?

That kind of stuff.

But in a dream, every day, a dream will give that to you.

I think you've got to allow that.

You don't have to know why.

Don't have to know why.

And I was telling, I speak to high school kids.

I was in a class last week and they were like, well, so what kind of philosophy is