
He eventually trimmed that down to 125 disjointed minutes, but fans wondered for years what the longer version of the movie may have looked like. Despite working from short novella that could be read from start to finish in a couple of hours, the director greatly expanded his script and shot enough material that his first rough cut ran over three hours long. For his 1990 film ‘Wild at Heart’, Lynch took the opposite approach. Typically, when a filmmaker adapts a book to the screen, he or she must condense the text into a manageable length by removing inessential scenes or storylines.

David Lynch has never been accused of doing anything in a conventional manner.
