Hollywood is honoring the life of film legend David Lynch after he died at the age of 78 on Thursday.
The “Mulholland Drive” director’s family announced his passing via Facebook, writing, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us.
“But, as he would say. ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
In August, Lynch announced he was diagnosed with emphysema as a result of “smoking for so long” and was “homebound.”
“It would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold,” he told Sight & Sound magazine, per the Independent.
The filmmaker shared he could “only walk a short distance before” running “out of oxygen.”
Despite the setback, Lynch took to X that same month to share he would “never retire” from the movie industry.
His cause of death wasn’t revealed.
Several Hollywood moguls mourned the “Twin Peaks” director via social media, including Kyle MacLachlan, who starred in Lynch’s 1984 film “Dune,” 1986 movie “Blue Velvet” and his 1990 TV series “Twin Peaks.”
“Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie,” the actor wrote on Instagram.
“He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.”
MacLachlan, 65, described Lynch as an “enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him.”
The “Blink Twice” star shared that his life was “much fuller” because he knew Lynch and “much emptier now that he’s gone.”
James Gunn took to X to share that the “Inland Empire” star “inspired so many.”
Actor Kumail Nanjiani passed along an inspirational message from Lynch, writing via Bluesky, “David…
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