Happy birthday, David Lynch! The writer director is celebrating his 70th birthday today.

Lynch is known for his experimental and challenging choices as a director, often creating eerie dream sequences and suspenseful sound design. His best known works include films such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Wild at Heart.

However, many fans in the ComicBook.com community known Lynch for his work on the classic Twin Peaks series which was recently revived by Showtime and will premiere in 2017.

Prior to his filmmaking fame, Lynch moved around a lot as a kid, but would likely call Montana home seeing as he was born in Missoula. He grew up and began studying painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and went on to make his first film while attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.