David Lynch was notorious for pulling people off the street and making them actors.

There is a story I love of him driving home from a set one evening when he sees a woman standing on a sidewalk. He tells his driver to stop the car and asks his assistant to get out and get her number.

The assistant says, “What for?” Lynch responds, “I don’t know, just get her number.”

Several days later, they’re on set preparing to shoot a new scene when Lynch looks at his assistant and says, “Remember when I told you to get that woman’s telephone number? She’s in the next scene.”

This is how Lynch worked.

He built the plane as he flew it. It’s a devil-may-care sort of playfulness all of us can infuse in our lives and our work.