I didn’t watch much TV as a kid and I don’ t watch it now. I don’ t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can’t do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

In this remark Lynch contrasts television with cinema from the standpoint of an image-driven filmmaker. He suggests that TV, as a medium, rarely offers him the kind of concentrated visual beauty, formal control, and singular “dream” experience he associates with film. Yet he singles out one distinctive strength: serialization—the ability to extend narrative over time and let mood, mystery, and character accumulate across episodes. The comment aligns with Lynch’s career-long interest in sustained atmosphere and ongoing enigma (qualities that later made his work on serialized projects especially resonant), while also reflecting his skepticism toward TV’s typical aesthetics and industrial constraints.