Patricia Arquette Reacts To ‘Lost Highway’ Director David Lynch’s Death: “Nobody Like Him”​on January 17, 2025 at 1:08 am

The life of David Lynch has left a mark on Hollywood, especially for those who worked with the 4x Oscar-nominated writer and director.

Patricia Arquette, who starred in Lynch’s 1997 neo-noir thriller Lost Highway, mourned the filmmaker as she learned of the his death during an interview on Thursday, hours after he died at age 78.

“I was just at the Marrakech Film Festival, and the woman who ran it, Melita [Toscan du Plantier], she loves David and they’re good friends. We were talking about David, and then I called my friend Balthazar [Getty], who was in Lost Highway with me, and I was like, ‘We gotta go see David.’ And I tried to leave word for him. I was feeling like I needed to see David,” she said on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. “David was really incredible. There’s nobody like him.”

In Lost Highway, co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, Arquette plays two women in separate stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) accused of his wife’s murder, and another about a young mechanic (Getty) lured into a web of deceit between a temptress and her gangster boyfriend.

Lynch’s family announced his death on Thursday after he was diagnosed with emphysema. Sources told Deadline that he was forced to relocate from his house due to the Sunset Fire and then took a turn for the worse.

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” his family said in a statement. “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. 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.”