Question: Which American director, known as "the first popular Surrealist" and "the important director of his era", helped produce the song "In Dreams" on the album In Dreams: The Greatest Hits in 1987?

Context articles: Dance Again... the Hits
Don't Need the Sun to Shine (To Make Me Smile)
The Best Hits (Enrique Iglesias album)
The Essential Mariah Carey
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
David Denny (musician)
The Platinum Collection (Queen album)
Greatest Hits (Westlife album)
Greatest Hits (Mariah Carey album)
David Lynch

Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album of American singer Jennifer Lopez.
 It was released on July 20, 2012, by Epic Records, to coincide with the launch of her first world tour, the Dance Again World Tour.
 Lopez previously conceived plans for a greatest hits album in 2009, but instead opted to use the material recorded for her seventh studio album, "Love?
", which was released by Island Records in May 2011 after her departure from Epic Records in 2010.
 As Lopez owed the label one last album to fulfill her contract, she began work on a new greatest hits album in November 2011.
 She later became unsure whether she wanted to go along with plans to release a greatest hits album or a new studio album, eventually deciding on the former.
"Don't Need the Sun to Shine (to Make Me Smile)" is a song by Gabrielle and the lead single from her greatest hits compilation "Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol.
 1", spanning her first three albums.
 The single managed to peak at number nine in the UK Singles Chart and helped her best of compilation achieve four-times platinum status.
 The song was also her eighth consecutive top fifteen hit in the UK and her tenth top ten hit.
The Best Hits is the second greatest hits album, and seventh overall release, from pop singer Enrique Iglesias.
 The album was released by Fonovisa after Iglesias had left them, and is the second of three compilation releases made available following his departure.
 The collection includes a number of album tracks and popular singles, although due to the release of "Bailamos Greatest Hits" a few months prior, failed to sell highly in the United States or Latin America.
 Unlike its predecessor, the album contains more singles than album tracks, and could be seen as more of a greatest hits than "Bailamos Greatest Hits".
 The album was certified gold in u.s for sales of 500,000 copies.
The Essential Mariah Carey is the third greatest hits album by American singer Mariah Carey.
 The album was released in June 2011 in the UK and Ireland as a repackage of her previous album "Greatest Hits".
 In the US, it was released on September 3, 2011 as an entirely new greatest hits album as part of Sony's The Essential series, and contains songs released during Mariah's time at Columbia Records.
 It replaces some songs (featured on the original 2001 "Greatest Hits" release) with their extended club mixes, and others being completely removed in favor of tracks that had not been released as singles.
 Much of the artwork inside the album booklet is very similar to that of the "Greatest Hits" release.
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits is a two-record album set of Roy Orbison songs released in 1987 on Virgin Records.
 It was produced by Orbison and Mike Utley, except for the song "In Dreams", produced by Orbison with T Bone Burnett and film director David Lynch.
 All songs are new recordings by Orbison from 1985, except "In Dreams" from April 1987.
David Denny (born February 5, 1948, Berkeley, California) is an American rock guitar player who was a founding member of Frumious Bandersnatch, a seminal psychedelic rock band from 1960s San Francisco.
 Denny was a member of the Steve Miller Band, playing on 1977's "Book of Dreams", "Greatest Hits 1974-1978" (released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies), and 1993's "Wide River".
 Denny wrote the hit song "The Stake," which was on the "Book of Dreams" and "Greatest Hits 1974-1978" albums.
 While running a Mission District studio during the late 1980s, Denny contributed his guitar and vocal talents as a founding member of the Bombay Crawlers and played several Bay Area gigs with the swampy, powerful rock ensemble.
 He later released two solo albums, 1991's Diesel Harmonics and 1997's Louisiana Melody.
 David Denny and his ex-wife Kathy Peck (Executive Director and Co-founder of H.E.A.R. and former bass player with The Contractions) are artists, songwriters, film score composers, and music publisher owners of Monima Music.
The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III is a box set by British rock band Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, "Greatest Hits", "Greatest Hits II" and "Greatest Hits III".
 The album was originally released on 13 November 2000 on the Parlophone label.
 A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set.
 The album's US release was delayed by Hollywood Records until September 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of "Greatest Hits Volumes 1" and "2" on the US and Canadian versions of "The Platinum Collection".
Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album and final release by Irish boy band Westlife.
 It was released on 18 November 2011 by RCA Records and Sony Music.
 "Greatest Hits" is the group's second greatest hits album following "" (2002).
 The album is the group's first album not under Syco Music and not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011.
 The greatest hits album contains numerous singles that span throughout the band's career, as well as four new songs produced by John Shanks, which includes the lead single "Lighthouse", which was released on 14 November 2011.
 The compilation was released in two different formats, a standard edition containing the album's eighteen tracks, and a deluxe edition featuring numerous other singles of the band's discography, as well as a DVD containing almost all of the band's music videos.
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released in the United States on December 4, 2001 by Columbia Records.
 It is a greatest hits double album: CD 1 is primarily a collection of Carey's hits from 1990 to 1995, while CD 2 is primarily a collection of hits from 1996 to 2000.
 In 2011, the album was re-issued outside the US with the same track listing, under the title of "The Essential Mariah Carey".
 In 2012, "The Essential Mariah Carey" was released in North America with a slightly different track listing, replacing some hits with their extended club mixes, and others being completely removed in favor of tracks that had not been released as singles.
 Much of the artwork inside the album booklet is very similar to that of the "Greatest Hits" release.
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, actor, and photographer.
 He has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era".
 AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".