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I Like People Who, You Know, As You Go Along In Life, You Know, A Thing Happens, And People Become A Seeker. They Look For Something To Give Them The Path To Their Full Potential. I Like Them To Know About Transcendental Mediation, But They've Got To Make Up Their Own Mind To Take It And Use It.

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I Like People Who, You Know, As You Go Along In Life, You Know, A Thing Happens, And People Become A Seeker. They Look For Something To Give Them The Path To Their Full Potential. I Like Them To Know About Transcendental Mediation, But They've Got To Make Up Their Own Mind To Take It And Use It.

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When You Get An Idea, So Many Things Come In That One Moment. You Could Write The Sound Of That Idea, Or The Sound Of The Room It's In. You Could Write The Clothes The Character Is Wearing, What They're Saying, How They Move, What They Look Like. Instead Of Making Up, You're Actually Catching An Idea, For A Story, Characters, Place, And Mood - All The Stuff That Comes.

I Always Loved Smokestack Industry, And I Love Towns Or Cities That Have Grown Up Around Factories.

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As Collective Consciousness Goes Higher And Higher, All The Differences In The World Will Be Appreciated More And More. A Definition Of Peace Is Unity In The Midst Of Diversity. Or You Could Say Happiness, Love, And Peace In The Midst Of All Diversity. All The Differences Would Be Appreciated Fully In The Light Of This Peace.

The More Unknowable The Mystery, The More Beautiful It Is.

I'm Not A Musician, But I Play Music. So It's A Strange Thing.

Ideas Are Floating Like Fish. Desire For An Idea Is Like A Bait On A Hook. If You Desire An Idea, It Pulls And It Makes A Kind Of A Bait. Ideas Will Come Swimming Up. And You Don't Know Them Until They Enter The Conscious Mind. And Then Bingo! There It Is! You Know It Instantly. And Then More Come In. If You Go Fishing For Ideas, A Lot Of Ideas Will Just Pop In. And One Of Them Will Make You Fall In Love.

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Transcendental Meditation Is Not A Religion, It's Not Against Any Religion, It's For Human Beings, No Matter What Color, What Religion, What Walk Of Life. If You're A Human Being, It Will Work For You. And You Will Be Very Glad You Found This Technique And Took Advantage Of It.

As A Teenager, I Was Really Trying To Have Fun 24 Hours A Day. I Didn't Start Thinking Until I Was 20 Or 21. I Was Doing Regular Goof-ball Stuff.

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I Learned That Just Beneath The Surface There's Another World, And Still Different Worlds As You Dig Deeper. I Knew It As A Kid, But I Couldn't Find The Proof. It Was Just A Kind Of Feeling. There Is Goodness In Blue Skies And Flowers, But Another Force - A Wild Pain And Decay - Also Accompanies Everything.

All My Movies Are About Strange Worlds That You Can't Go Into Unless You Build Them And Film Them. That's What's So Important About Film To Me. I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

I Have A Profound Admiration For Fellini. I Met Him Lately And He's Just Fantastic. I Feel Very Close To Him Even Though He's Very Italian. But His Films Could Have Been Made In Every Country. When I Say, I Feel Close To Him, Then Also Because We're Both Born On January 20th.

I Didn't Really Grow Up Listening To Blues, Because I Grew Up In The Northwest. It Wasn't Really The Center For Blues.

Most Of Hollywood Is About Making Money - And I Love Money, But I Don't Make The Films Thinking About Money.

Been Trying The Soapy Water And Instant Coffee Method. Works Somewhat, But Boy It Tastes Terrible. I Don't Know How You Guys Can Stand It. I'm Going Back To Milk And Espresso For My Cappas.

I Like Things That Go Into Hidden, Mysterious Places, Places I Want To Explore That Are Very Disturbing. In That Disturbing Thing, There Is Sometimes Tremendous Poetry And Truth.

I Know Club Music Has To Be Infectious And It's Got To Make You Move.

There's So Many Problems In Our World, So Much Negativity. Don't Worry About The Darkness - Turn On The Light And The Darkness Automatically Goes. Ramp Up The Light Of Unity Within - Help Do That For Yourself, Help Do That For The World And Then We're Really Doing Something, We're Doing Something That Brings That Light Of Unity.

I Don't Think Anybody Really Loves The Sound Of Their Own Voice, But The Tweakability Is Huge.

True Happiness Is Not Out There. True Happiness Lies Within.

Transcendental Meditation

The Only Thing That Disturbs Me Is That Many Psychopaths Say They Had A Very Happy Childhood.

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Humor Is Very Interesting To Me. My Films Are Not Comedies, But There's Comedy In Them From Time To Time, Absurdities, Just Like In Real Life.

To Me, Jazz Is The Closest Thing To Insanity That There Is In Music.

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Absurdity Is What I Like Most In Life.

Absurdity Of Life

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Music Deals With Time And Timing. It's So Magical, But When You Get Into It, Every Little Sound And Every Little Space Between The Sounds, It's Critical, So Critical. And If It's Not There, It Not Only Feels Wrong, But It Ruins Things.

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Many Things Happen That We Don't Know The Significance Of Until A Little Bit Later.

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An Artist Makes A Painting, And Nobody Bugs Him Or Her About It. It's Just You And Your Painting. To Me, That's The Way It Should Be With Film As Well.

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They Say The Full Potential Of The Human Being Is Called Enlightenment, Which Is Infinite Consciousness, Infinite Happiness, Zero Negativity, Zero Dying, Complete Freedom, Total Fulfillment, And Being At One With Everything. You Can Say It's God Realization, Or You Can Say You Sit At The Feet Of The Lord As Master Of All You Survey. You Could Say It's Totality, Total Knowledge, And That You Are That Totality. This Is Every Human Being's Birthright: To One Day Enjoy Supreme Enlightenment, Unity. It's Like The Big Graduation.

I Love Mysteries. To Fall Into A Mystery And Its Danger ... Everything Becomes So Intense In Those Moments. When Most Mysteries Are Solved, I Feel Tremendously Let Down. So I Want Things To Feel Solved Up To A Point, But There's Got To Be A Certain Percentage Left Over To Keep The Dream Going. It's Like At The End Of Chinatown: The Guy Says, 'forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown.' You Understand It, But You Don't Understand It, And It Keeps That Mystery Alive. That's The Most Beautiful Thing.

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Intuition Is Knowingness, And This Field Of Unbounded Knowing, Of Knowingness, Is Within Every Human Being. You Start Tapping Into That And It Becomes An Ocean Of Solutions.

If A Human Being Is Filled With Happiness And Positivity, This Is What They Radiate Out Into The World. We Each Affect Our Environment And That Collective Consciousness. The More People Who Are Diving Within And Transcending And Are Getting That Happiness And Positivity, The Better The World Will Be.

The More You Meditate The Better Life Gets.

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The Worst Thing About This Modern World Is That People Think You Get Killed On Television With Zero Pain And Zero Blood. It Must Enter Into Kids' Heads That It's Not Very Messy To Kill Somebody, And It Doesn't Hurt That Much. That's A Real Sickness To Me. That's A Real Sick Thing.

Don't Make A Film If It Can't Be The Film You Want To Make. It's A Joke, And A Sick Joke, And It'll Kill You.

I'm Not A Political Person. I Don't Understand Politics, I Don't Understand The Concept Of Two Sides And I Think That Probably There's Good On Both Sides, Bad On Both Sides, And There's A Middle Ground, But It Never Seems To Come To The Middle Ground And It's Very Frustrating Watching It And Seemingly We're Not Moving Forward.

I Have No Problem Getting Financing. I Have A Problem Catching Ideas That I Fall In Love With For The Next Feature.

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I Would Rather Not Make A Film Than Make One Where I Don't Have Final Cut.

I Love Seeing People Come Out Of Darkness.

Life Is Filled With Abstractions, And The Only Way To Make Heads Or Tails Of It Is Going Through Intuition.

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.

Being In Darkness And Confusion Is Interesting To Me. But Behind It You Can Rise Out Of That And See Things The Way The Really Are. That There Is Some Sort Of Truth To The Whole Thing, If You Could Just Get To That Point Where You Could See It, And Live It, And Feel It. I Think It Is A Long, Long, Way Off. In The Meantime There’s Suffering And Darkness And Confusion And Absurdities, And It’s People Kind Of Going In Circles. It’s Fantastic. It’s Like A Strange Carnival: It’s A Lot Of Fun, But It’s A Lot Of Pain.

I Just Love Musicians. They're Not All Super-happy All The Time, But When They're Playing They're Happy, And It's Such A Beautiful Thing.

I Supported Myself By Delivering The 'wall Street Journal' And Doing Odd Jobs. I Love Plumbing And Carpentry.

You Don't Need A Special Place To Meditate. You Can Transcend Anywhere In The World. The Unified Field Is Here, And There, And Everywhere.

A Lot Of Artists Think They Want Anger. But A Real, Strong, Bitter Anger Occupies The Mind, Leaving No Room For Creativity.

New Mysteries. New Day. Fresh Doughnuts.

One Change Of Attitude Would Change Everything. If Everyone Realized That It Could Be A Beautiful World And Said, 'let's Not Do These Things Anymore - Let's Have Fun.'

Sex Is A Doorway To Something So Powerful And Mystical, But Movies Usually Depict It In A Completely Flat Way.

Every Human Being Has Consciousness, But Not Every Human Being Has The Same Amount. The Potential For Each One Of Us Human Beings Is Infinite Consciousness. This Is Called Supreme Enlightenment, And It Just Needs Unfolding By Transcending Each Day. The More Consciousness We Have, The Better Life Is.

When You Make Your First Film, It's Really Hard In Some Ways. You're Just Nowhere. But Then You Have Something. If You Have A Success, Then You Might Be Looking To Take A Fall. If You Had A Fall, You Get A Certain Kind Of Euphoria Because You're Not Dead, So You Can Still Do It Again. It's About How You Go Through The Processes. Do You Enjoy That "doing"? Is It Getting Less Fun Or More Fun?

As A Kid, I Was Always Building Things. My Father Had A Shop In The House, And We Built Things - We Were Kind Of A Project Family. I Started Out As A Painter, And Then Painting Led To Cinema, And In Cinema, You Get To Build So Many Things, Or Help Build Them.

I Started Transcendental Meditation In 1973 And Have Not Missed A Single Meditation Ever Since. Twice A Day, Every Day. It Has Given Me Effortless Access To Unlimited Reserves Of Energy, Creativity And Happiness Deep Within.

Ideas Are Like Fish. If You Want To Catch Little Fish, You Can Stay In The Shallow Water. But If You Want To Catch The Big Fish, You’ve Got To Go Deeper. Down Deep, The Fish Are More Powerful And More Pure.they’re Huge And Abstract. And They’re Very Beautiful.

If You Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut And Do Your Work, That's All You Can Control. You Can't Control Any Of What's Out There, Outside Yourself.

A Lot Of Musicians Like To Do The Bass And The Drums With Analog And Get That Tape Distortion That's Really Beautiful. As Far As The Digital World Goes - It's All Going To End Up There Anyway, But When You Hear Vinyl It Does A Different Thing To You. Nowadays, People Do Cds And Then Vinyl So It's Everything Goes; It's A Such A Beautiful World.

There Is This Unbounded, Infinite, Eternal, Level, Ocean, Within Every Human Being. Inner Happiness Comes With Consciousness, Bliss, Intelligence Comes With It. Creativity, Love. Human Beings Have A Potential And It Has Names Like Enlightenment Or Fulfilment, Or Liberation. True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within. They Say Beauty Is Only Skin Deep But It's This Stuff Coming From The Inside, Absolute Vibrant Consciousness, Absolute Bliss

Intuition Is The Key To Everything, In Painting, Filmmaking, Business - Everything.

Joining Together

Secrets And Mysteries Provide A Beautiful Corridor Where You Can Float Out. The Corridor Expands And Many, Many Wonderful Things Can Happen... I Love The Process Of Going Into Mystery.

Transcendental Meditation Is An Ancient Mental Technique That Allows Any Human Being To Dive Within, Transcend And Experience The Source Of Everything. It's Such A Blessing For The Human Being Because That Eternal Field Is A Field Of Unbounded Intelligence, Creativity, Happiness, Love, Energy And Peace.

I Hate Slick And Pretty Things. I Prefer Mistakes And Accidents. Which Is Why I Like Things Like Cuts And Bruises - They're Like Little Flowers. I've Always Said That If You Have A Name For Something, Like 'cut' Or 'bruise,' People Will Automatically Be Disturbed By It. But When You See The Same Thing In Nature, And You Don't Know What It Is, It Can Be Very Beautiful.

I'm Not A Real Film Buff. Unfortunately, I Don't Have Time. I Just Don't Go. And I Become Very Nervous When I Go To A Film Because I Worry So Much About The Director And It Is Hard For Me To Digest My Popcorn.

The Day You Catch An Idea You Fall In Love With, Even A Small One, Is A Beautiful Day.

Falling In Love

They Say That Negative Things Like Stress, Anxiety, Tension, Sorrow, And Depression "squeeze The Tube" So Ideas Don't Flow Through It. But If You Get Rid Of That Negativity, Which Goes Away Naturally When You Transcend Every Day, These Ideas Are More Freely Flowing, And You Get Happy In The Doing. You Get Fresh And Inspiring Ideas, And A Bigger Picture Starts To Emerge Of The World And Life. It's Very Good For The Artist, Businessman, Fisherman, And Any Kind Of Person Really.

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.

I Love The Quality, Feel And History Of Film. I Love The Pictures Of The Giant Cameras And The Way It Was.

When You Get An Idea, So Many Things Come In That One Moment. You Could Write The Sound Of That Idea, Or The Sound Of The Room It's In. You Could Write The Clothes The Character Is Wearing, What They're Saying, How They Move, What They Look Like. Instead Of Making Up, You're Actually Catching An Idea, For A Story, Characters, Place, And Mood - All The Stuff That Comes. When You Put A Sound To Something And It's Wrong, It's So Obvious. When It's Right, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts. That's A Magical Thing That Can Happen In Cinema.

Every Teacher Of Transcendental Meditation Is A Hero.

Man Is Evolving...but It's Difficult To See His Progress With A Western Perception Of Time. The Hindus Think Of Time In Much Larger Segments. They Watch The Hour Hand Of The Clock While We In The West Are Preoccupied With The Second Hand.

Every Time I Hear Sounds, I See Pictures. Then, I Start Getting Ideas. It Just Drives Me Crazy

I Look At The World And I See Absurdity All Around Me. People Do Strange Things Constantly, To The Point That, For The Most Part, We Manage Not To See It. That's Why I Love Coffee Shops And Public Places - I Mean, They're All Out There.

Tenderness Can Be Just As Abstract As Insanity.

Sex Was Like A World So Mysterious To Me, I Really Couldn't Believe There Was This Fantastic Texture To Life That I Was Getting To Do...it Has All These Different Levels, From Lust And Fearful, Violent Sex To The Real Spiritual Thing At The Other End. It's The Key To Some Fantastic Mystery Of Life.

In The World There's A Thing Called Collective Consciousness. All Of Us Billions Of Human Beings Together Create That Collective Consciousness. With All The Problems In Our World, You Can See That The Collective Consciousness Is Not So High.

If A Scene Isn't Honest, It Stands Out Like A Sore Thumb.

I Just Have To Think Of Philadelphia Now, And I Get Ideas, I Hear The Wind, And I'm Off Into The Darkness Somewhere.

I've Loved Music Always, And My Music Fire Was Lit By Elvis Presley, Really, And All That Was Happening Back Then.

I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

Music Has Fed Me A Lot Of Ideas... The Film Blue Velvet Came Out Of Bobby Vinton's Version Of The Song Blue Velvet.

I Don't Know Why People Expect Art To Make Sense. They Accept The Fact That Life Doesn't Make Sense.

You Get A Painting Idea, And You Go Do That. You Get A Cinema Idea, And You Go In To Do That. The Difference Is, Even Though The Paintings Might Take Some Time To Make, With Cinema You Are Booked For A Year And A Half, Minimum.

I Don't Like The Word Ironic. I Like The Word Absurdity, And I Don't Really Understand The Word 'irony' Too Much. The Irony Comes When You Try To Verbalize The Absurd. When Irony Happens Without Words, It's Much More Exalted.

There Is An Ocean Of Creativity Within Every Human Being.

The Ideas Dictate Everything, You Have To Be True To That Or You're Dead.

I Don't Like Thomas Edison. I'm A Fan Of Nicolai Tesla.

It's Better Not To Know So Much About What Things Mean Or How They Might Be Interpreted Or You'll Be Too Afraid To Let Things Keep Happening. Psychology Destroys The Mystery, This Kind Of Magic Quality. It Can Be Reduced To Certain Neuroses Or Certain Things, And Since It Is Now Named And Defined, It's Lost Its Mystery And The Potential For A Vast, Infinite Experience.

There Are Only 24 Hours In A Day, And My Top Priority Is Working On My Films, But I Love Short Film Experiments.

It's Important That A Film Is Loud And I Hope Many People Agree. You Should Be Inside Of A Film When You Go Into A Theater. It Should Surround You, Envelope You, So You Can Live Inside A Dream.

If You Have A Golf-ball-sized Consciousness, When You Read A Book, You'll Have A Golf-ball-sized Understanding; When You Look Out A Window, A Golf-ball-sized Awareness, When You Wake Up In The Morning, A Golf-ball-sized Wakefulness; And As You Go About Your Day, A Golf-ball-sized Inner Happiness. But If You Can Expand That Consciousness, Make It Grow, Then When You Read About That Book, You'll Have More Understanding; When You Look Out, More Awareness; When You Wake Up, More Wakefulness; As You Go About Your Day, More Inner Happiness.

The Interesting Thing That Happens For Many People When They First Start Meditating Is That They'll Be Doing It For A Few Months, And They Will Begin To Change, But The Experience Is So Subtle That They're Not Even Aware Of It.

It's Important To Listen To Lots Of Different Genres Because You Never Know When Something Will Get Born Out Of It.

Life Is Very, Very Complicated, And So Films Should Be Allowed To Be, Too.

To Make The Script, You Need Ideas, And For Me A Lot Of Times, A Final Script Is Made Up Of Many Fragments Of Ideas That Came At Different Times.

I Quit Smoking In December. I’m Really Depressed About It. I Love Smoking, I Love Fire, I Miss Lighting Cigarettes. I Like The Whole Thing About It, To Me It Turns Into The Artist’s Life, And Now People Like Bloomberg Have Made Animals Out Of Smokers, And They Think That If They Stop Smoking Everyone Will Live Forever.

The Great Coming To Age Of Cable Is Really A Beautiful Thing. No Commercials. It's Like A Small Theater. It's A Cinema On A Tv Screen.

Beautiful Things

I Hear Heroin Is A Very Popular Drug These Days.

When You're Down, When You've Been Kicked Down In The Street And Then Kicked A Few More Times Until You're Bleeding And Your Teeth Are Out, Then You Only Have Up To Go. You Get Reborn Again, And Expectations Aren't So Great Because They've Taken You Away. It's Beautiful To Be Down There. It's So Beautiful!

I Love Two-lane Highways. They Say Something About The Way Things Used To Be, And About Areas That Don't Have A Lot Of People. On Those Two-lanes At Night You Get The Sense Of Moving Into The Unknown, And That's As Thrilling A Sense As Human Beings Can Have.

Some People Grew Up In The '70s, Powerful, Beautiful Memories Of The '70s Which To Me Is One Of The Worst Decades. It Has Something To Do With That. Has Something To With The Birth Of Rock 'n' Roll, And Something To Do With Those American Cars. An Incredible Design. There Was So Much Optimism At That Time And It Must Leak Into The Process.

When You Do Something That Works You Have A Happiness, But I Don't Know If It's A Feeling Of Power. Power Is A Frightening Thing And That's Not What I'm Interested In. I Want To Do Certain Things And Make Them Right In My Mind And That's It.

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.

Some Things We Forget. But Many Things We Remember On The Mental Screen, Which Is The Biggest Screen Of All.

Consciousness-based Education Is Education That Is In Most Ways Exactly Like Regular Education, But With The Added Technique Of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, Or Tm As It's Often Referred To, Allows Students To Dive In And Experience The Unbounded Ocean Of Consciousness Within Each Of Us, The Big Treasury, The Field Within Each Of Us That Is The Base Of All Matter And All Mind. It's Been Found That Transcending And Experiencing That Unbounded, Eternal Level Of Life Does Wonders For Education, And For Human Beings.

I'm Convinced We All Are Voyeurs. It's Part Of The Detective Thing. We Want To Know Secrets And We Want To Know What Goes On Behind Those Windows. And Not In A Way That We Would Use To Hurt Anyone. There's An Entertainment Value To It, But At The Same Time We Want To Know: What Do Humans Do? Do They Do The Same Things As I Do? It's A Gaining Of Some Sort Of Knowledge, I Think.

The Technology Can Change, But Storytelling Remains The Same. It's Just A Digital World Now Instead Of An Analog World, But Now The Storytelling's The Same. You Got Different Tools. That's All.

The World Is As You Are.

Directors Who Have Inspired Me Include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola And Ernst Lubitsch. In Art School, I Studied Painters Like Edward Hopper, Who Used Urban Motifs, Franz Kafka Is My Favorite Novelist. My Approach To Film Stems From My Art Background, As I Go Beyond The Story To The Sub-conscious Mood Created By Sound And Images.

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.

Black And White

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.

Transcendental Meditation Is Like A Car, A Vehicle That Allows You To Go Within. It's A Mental Technique. You're Given A Mantra - The Mantra That Maharishi Gives Is Very Specific, And You Start To Dive Into Subtler Levels Of Mind, Subtler Levels Of Intellect. You Transcend The Whole Show, Into Pure Bliss Consciousness. From Your First Meditation, You Say, "whoa!" It's A Unique Experience, But A Familiar Experience.

I Think Part Of The Reason Ideas Haven't Come In Is That The World Of Cinema Is Changing So Drastically, And In A Weird Way, Feature Films I Think Have Become Cheap. Everything Is Kind Of Throwaway. It's Experienced And Then Forgotten.

So Much Of What Happened To Me Is Good Fortune. But I Would Say: Try To Get A Job That Gives You Some Time; Get Your Sleep And A Little Bit Of Food; And Work As Much As You Can. There's So Much Enjoyment In Doing What You Love. Maybe This Will Open Doors, And You'll Find A Way To Do What You Love.

I'm Responsible For What People See And What They Hear.

Happy Accidents Are Real Gifts, And They Can Open The Door To A Future That Didn't Even Exist. It's Kind Of Nice Sometimes To Set Up Something To Encourage Or Allow Happy Accidents To Happen.

The Feature Film Has Changed A Lot. Art Houses Are Gone And People Show A Certain Type Of Cinema In The Big Theaters Now That, You Know, It's Not Quite Really Good For Me, And If I Made A Feature Film, I Was Think I'd Play In La And New York For A Week, And Then Go Right To Television.

Everybody's Got Creativity. You Just Get More Of It [when You Meditate].

I've Said Many, Many, Many Unkind Things About Philadelphia, And I Meant Every One.

When You Sleep, You Don`t Control Your Dream. I Like To Dive Into A Dream World That I've Made, A World I Chose And That I Have Complete Control Over.

Transcending Gives A Human Being A Chance To Think Before Acting. And Experiencing This Beautiful Treasury Within Gets Rid Of Torment And Replaces It With Happiness, Inner Peace, Creativity Intelligence, Love, Energy. This Fuels A Real Good Life And Fuels An Appreciation For All Human Beings. It's So Powerful And It's A Blessing For Humanity.

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.

Cinema Is A Medium That Can Translate Ideas. But Wood Can Translate Ideas, Too. You Have Wood And Then You Get A Chair. Some Ideas Are For Different Things.

The Mantra That You're Given In Transcendental Meditation You Keep To Yourself. The Reason Being, True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within.

Music As Background To Me Becomes Like A Mosquito, An Insect. In The Studio We Have Big Speakers, And To Me That's The Way Music Should Be Listened To. When I Listen To Music, I Want To Just Listen To Music.

Film Can't Just Be A Long Line Of Bliss. There's Something We All Like About The Human Struggle.

Every Single Person Has Within An Ocean Of Pure Vibrant Consciousness. Every Single Human Being Can Experience That - Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Creativity, Infinite Happiness, Infinite Energy, Infinite Dynamic Peace.

I Was Raised Presbyterian, But I'm Not Really Going To Church. I Think The Experience In Meditation Is Pretty Much Where It's At For Me.

All We Really Need Is This Technique Of Transcendental Meditation, Which Allows Any Human Being To Easily And Effortlessly Transcend. When You Get This Technique Of Transcendental Meditation, Stay Regular In Your Meditation Twice A Day And You Will Begin To Rapidly Unfold Your Full Potential As A Human Being And See Life Get Better And Better And Better.

I Like Darkness And Confusion And Absurdity, But I Like To Know That There Could Be A Little Door That You Could Go Out Into A Safe Life Area Of Happiness.

There's A Safety In Thinking In A Diner. You Can Have Your Coffee Or Your Milkshake, And You Can Go Off Into Strange Dark Areas, And Always Come Back To The Safety Of The Diner.

A Film Is Its Own Thing And In An Ideal World I Think A Film Should Be Discovered Knowing Nothing And Nothing Should Be Added To It And Nothing Should Be Subtracted From It.

Knowing Nothing

We Think We Understand The Rules When We Become Adults But What We Really Experience Is A Narrowing Of The Imagination.

I've Seen So Many Cases Where Lives Have Been Transformed For The Good And Heard So Many Stories About This. The Technique Of Transcendental Meditation Really Works For The Human Being.

I Believe In Creative Control. No Matter What Anyone Makes, They Should Have Control Over It.

Mankind Was Not Meant To Suffer -- Bliss Is Our Nature. The Individual Is Cosmic. Let's Rock.

Every Viewer Is Going To Get A Different Thing. That's The Thing About Painting, Photography, Cinema.

I Love Paint. I Like Watercolours. I Like Acrylic Paint... A Little Bit. I Like House Paint. I Like Oil-based Paint, And I Love Oil Paint. I Love The Smell Of Turpentine And I Like That World Of Oil Paint Very, Very, Very Much.

I Truly Believe There Is A Field Of Peace Within And That It Can Be Enlivened And Brought To The Surface To Be Enjoyed By All.

If We Didn't Want To Upset Anyone, We Would Make Films About Sewing, But Even That Could Be Dangerous. But I Think Finally, In A Film, It Is How The Balance Is And The Feelings Are. But I Think There Has To Be Those Contrasts And Strong Things Within A Film For The Total Experience.

Lately I Feel Films Are More And More Like Music. Music Deals With Abstractions And, Like Film, It Involves Time. It Has Many Different Movements, It Has Much Contrast. And Through Music You Learn That, In Order To Get A Particular Beautiful Feeling, You Have To Have Started Far Back, Arranging Certain Things In A Certain Way. You Can't Just Cut To It.

We All Have At Least Two Sides. The World We Live In Is A World Of Opposites. And The Trick Is To Reconcile Those Opposing Things. I've Always Liked Both Sides. In Order To Appreciate One You Have To Know The Other. The More Darkness You Can Gather Up, The More Light You Can See Too.

I Love Bob Dylan. Who Doesn't? He Tapped Into Some Kind Of Vein And It Keeps On Keeping On. There's Nobody Like Him. He's Unique, And Just... Way Out Cool.

When The Going Gets Tough, Everyone Leaves.

Going Gets Tough

Script Is Not Finished Until It's Finished. There's Many Times, Partway Through A Film, When An Idea Comes, And I Say, "how Beautiful This Is. This Thing Was Not Complete And Look What's Happened, Look What's Come Along." And It Just Came Along At What Might Be Called A Strange Time Rather Than A Normal Time.

I've Always Loved The Electric Guitar: To Hold It And Work It And Hear What It Does Is Unreal.

Two Half Hitches Around The Horn Will Hold The Devil As Sure As You're Born.

You're Right On The Money With That. We're All Like Detectives In Life. There's Something At The End Of The Trail That We're All Looking For.

Sometimes I Get An Idea For Cinema. And When You Get An Idea That You Fall In Love With, This Is A Glorious Day.

Falling In Love

It's A Simple Thing He [frank Daniel] Taught Me. If You Want To Make A Feature Film, You Get Ideas For 70 Scenes. Put Them On 3-by-5 Cards. As Soon As You Have 70, You Have A Feature Film.

Yes, Philadelphia Is Horrible, But In A Very Interesting Way. There Were Places There That Had Been Allowed To Decay, Where There Was So Much Fear And Crime That Just For A Moment There Was An Opening To Another World. It Was Fear, But It Was So Strong, And So Magical, Like A Magnet, That Your Imagination Was Always Sparking In Philadelphiai Just Have To Think Of Philadelphia Now, And I Get Ideas, I Hear The Wind, And I'm Off Into The Darkness Somewhere.

Speaking In Front Of A Large Crowd Is Not Pleasant. Once It Gets Rolling, It's Okay. But Beforehand, It's Murder.

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.

My Mother Refused To Give Me Coloring Books As A Child. She Probably Saved Me, Because When You Think About It, What A Coloring Book Does Is Completely Kill Creativity.

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