Same morbid attraction for abnormalities, for instance. Similar visionary set (more grotesque in Fellini, more gothic in Lynch). Same trend to descend to unconscious levels of poetry which seems to lead nowhere.
IMO, of course.
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
