Definitely. It's why I recommend both as his most accessible films ("accessible" is such a relative term, but here I mean "most mainstream"). Did you like The Straight Story, Blib? I think it's excellent. The last time I saw it (on the big screen), I cried my eyes out. The Elephant Man might be even more heartbreaking.

I was talking to a friend at uni before the Christmas vacation and he said he loved both of these films, and because of them he was frustrated that Lynch - a director who, for him, can easily evoke such emotions with ease - tends to make more obscure, surreal stuff. I love both styles, though; he evokes fright just as easily. I think he's a master.