You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It’s a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.
Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.
In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss-t he enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear – these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you’re suffering you can’t create.
Everybody’s got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.
Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it’s all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it’s not lit for black and white. So, it’s a tricky thing. If you’re going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain’t gonna be there.
If a scene isn’t honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
I find the joy of the ‘doing’ increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there’s not a whole lot of choice. You’re going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn’t have to make any sense. Bingo! You’re in love.
Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you’re born.
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don’t, and vice versa.
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you’re quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you’re going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they’re going to hit you.
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
I don’t think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
Someday, hopefully very soon, ‘diving within’ as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.