I think it is not fanciful or silly to say that the characters do start to possess their own life.

Harold Pinter, in The Progressive, 2001. Happy Halloween.

Antonin Artaud/David Lynch

THE LANGUAGE OF THE STAGE. It is not a question of eliminating spoken language but of giving words something of the importance they have in dreams.

Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double (1938)

And there’s always music in the air.

The Man from Another Place, Twin Peaks (1990s)

**For that matter, every dwarf in any scene by Lynch.