Daily Inspiration Quote by Martin Short

Martin Short is doing what great comedians do in interviews: praising with one hand, insulating with the other. The anecdote about almost making a movie with David Lynch in the late '80s is less trivia than credentialing. It plants Short inside a certain kind of cultural cool - adjacent to the high priest of cinematic weird - without claiming authorship of Lynchian mystique. “Lots of dinners and lunches” is wonderfully deflationary: not “we developed a visionary project,” but the very unglamorous labor of showbiz courtship, where ambition is measured in reservations.

Calling Lynch “cool” and “hip” is deliberately blunt, almost teenaged, which reads like Short’s way of puncturing the art-world reverence that clings to Lynch. Then comes the real move: “This film... is like an homage to him.” Short isn’t asking for permission so much as pre-framing the audience’s reception. If the movie is odd, it’s not a misfire; it’s a tribute. If it’s too odd, it’s still a joke. “Let’s face it” invites the listener to join the wink: yes, we know what we’re doing.

The tightest subtext sits in the final clause: “I would imagine he’d find it funny.” Short can’t vouch for Lynch, but he can narrate Lynch as an ideal viewer - someone with enough taste and irony to laugh rather than sue. It’s also a small manifesto for comedy that flirts with the avant-garde: the weirdness is intentional, the reference is the point, and the safety net is humor.