Kyle MacLachlan has addressed David Lynch’s death. The actor, 65, paid tribute to the legendary filmmaker on Thursday, just hours after Lynch’s family shared his passing at age 78. His cause of death was not disclosed.

I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.”

Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.