"The problem was that I was busily engaged writing a novel and was scheduled to leave for Spain in two weeks. How could we get a screenplay done right now, as Dave asked? In fact, he insisted. (Lynch hated to be called Dave, but he never objected to my calling him that. I think he liked my bit of irreverence.) I put aside the novel manuscript and agreed to work hard for two weeks and see what we came up with."
"He fell in love with a couple of sentences in the book in particular, one of which was when one woman says to another, "We're just a couple of Apaches ridin' wild on the lost highway!" What did it mean, he wanted to know. What was the deeper meaning of the phrase lost highway? He had an idea for a story."
In 1995 David Lynch asked to collaborate on a screenplay for a new film following the success of Wild at Heart and prior theatrical collaborations. The collaborator was writing a novel and due to leave for Spain, but agreed to pause the manuscript and spend two weeks developing the screenplay as a trial. Lynch had previously optioned Night People and mentioned his daughter's interest in a role. Lynch was captivated by a line about "ridin' wild on the lost highway" and proposed a story in which a person wakes up as a completely different person, a non-insect metamorphosis.
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