There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything.
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You’ve got to plug this painting in, and it’s got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it’s the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It’s the only experience that utilizes the full brain.
I’ve always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
The more you meditate the better life gets.
Because you make a world that didn’t exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It’s unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.
We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
Sometimes film kills the room to dream.
Most of Hollywood is about making money – and I love money, but I don’t make the films thinking about money...