The words are not there, ” he told The Guardian newspaper in a 2018 interview. His style of filmmaking prompted the term Lynchian, which Vanity Fair magazine described as weird, creepy, and slow.... Lynch once described his childhood as a “ very beautiful, sort of perfect world ”.... But as an art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the 1960s he encountered the seedier side of America while living in a crime-ridden, run-down area of Philadelphia with his wife and baby daughter.