Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate.

David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’s all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.

The legendary director died on Thursday, aged 78. He had emphysema. Naomi, 56, starred in the 2002 movie Mulholland Drive, which was directed by Lynch. "My heart is broken. My Buddy Dave... The world will not be the same without him,