section_path: Artistry/Influences
section_name: Influences
paragraph_text: Influences
  
  Lynch felt that his work was more similar to that of European filmmakers than American ones, and said that most films that "get down and thrill your soul" are by European directors.: 62 He expressed admiration for Federico Fellini,: 62 Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Jacques Tati,: 62 Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder. His favorite film, and one he regularly returned to, was Victor Fleming 's The Wizard of Oz. He said that Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) was one of his favorite pictures,: 71 as were "probably all of Bergman’s movies", Kubrick's Lolita (1962), Fellini's 8½ (1963), Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954), and Herzog's Stroszek (1977).: 21 He also cited Herk Harvey 's Carnival of Souls (1962) and Jerzy Skolimowski 's Deep End (1970) as influences on his work. Maya Deren 's 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon has also been recognized as a possible influence on Lynch. Some have suggested that Lynch's love of Hitchcock's Vertigo influenced his use of dual-identity female roles.
  
  Edward Hopper and Francis Bacon were two of Lynch's favorite painters. Lynch also praised installation artist Edward Kienholz. Lynch said his favorite books were Frank Capra 's The Name Above the Title, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment, Robert Henri 's The Art Spirit, Robert Flynn Johnson 's Anonymous Photographs, and Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis.
  
  Lynch felt that his work was more similar to that of European filmmakers than American ones, and said that most films that "get down and thrill your soul" are by European directors.: 62 He expressed admiration for Federico Fellini,: 62 Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Jacques Tati,: 62 Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder. His favorite film, and one he regularly returned to, was Victor Fleming 's The Wizard of Oz. He said that Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) was one of his favorite pictures,: 71 as were "probably all of Bergman’s movies", Kubrick's Lolita (1962), Fellini's 8½ (1963), Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954), and Herzog's Stroszek (1977).: 21 He also cited Herk Harvey 's Carnival of Souls (1962) and Jerzy Skolimowski 's Deep End (1970) as influences on his work. Maya Deren 's 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon has also been recognized as a possible influence on Lynch. Some have suggested that Lynch's love of Hitchcock's Vertigo influenced his use of dual-identity female roles.
  
  Edward Hopper and Francis Bacon were two of Lynch's favorite painters. Lynch also praised installation artist Edward Kienholz. Lynch said his favorite books were Frank Capra 's The Name Above the Title, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment, Robert Henri 's The Art Spirit, Robert Flynn Johnson 's Anonymous Photographs, and Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis.