the most thrilling combos of words

11th November 2017 | for Creatives | reading, books, crime, film, short stories, language, filmmaking, Franz Kafka, David Lynch  |       

the most thrilling combos of words

"I really dig [Franz Kafka] a lot.  Some of his things are the most thrilling combos of words I have ever read.  If Kafka wrote a crime picture, I’d be there.  I’d like to direct that for sure."

— David Lynch

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