With the passing of beloved director David Lynch, many of the actors he worked with – along with countless staunch admirers – have shared emotional tributes and testaments to his legacy.

Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Isabella Rossellini and other collaborators of David Lynch mourned the filmmaker's death on social media.

The "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet" star wrote that the late filmmaker allowed him to "travel in worlds" he could "never have conceived" on his own.

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to greatness was.

The director himself came off as almost performatively normal. Masterpieces like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive” said otherwise.

Searching the Tribune’s photo archive for a picture from “Eraserhead,” the 1977 David Lynch film that concluded one phase of my moviegoing life in the late ’70s and cracked open a second, bigger one,