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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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

Black Has Depth.. You Can Go Into It.. And You Start Seeing What You're Afraid Of. You Start Seeing What You Love, And It Becomes Like A Dream.

Stories Hold Conflict And Contrast, Highs And Lows, Life And Death, And The Human Struggle And All Kinds Of Things.

In Film, Life-and-death Struggles Make You Sit Up, Lean Forward A Little Bit. They Amplify Things Happening, In Smaller Ways, In All Of Us. These Things Show Up In Relationships. They Show Up In Struggles And Bring Them To A Critical Point.

Individual Peace Is The Unit Of World Peace.

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

I Don't Think That People Accept The Fact That Life Doesn't Make Sense. I Think It Makes People Terribly Uncomfortable. It Seems Like Religion And Myth Were Invented Against That, Trying To Make Sense Out Of It.

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.

When The Going Gets Tough, Everyone Leaves.

Going Gets Tough

A Film - Especially When It's A Personal Film - Is Going To Hit Somebody Or It's Not. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Cinema Is A Medium That Can Translate Ideas.

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.

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.

My Rule Of Thumb Is, What Siskel And Ebert Like, I Don't, And Vice Versa.

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 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.

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

I Didn't Know Anything About Film When I First Started - I Was A Painter - But I [always] Felt That Sound Was Just As Important As The Picture. The Sound, Picture, And Ideas Have To Marry. If An Idea Carries With It A Mood, Sound Is Critical To Making That Mood.

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.

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?

It Makes Me Uncomfortable To Talk About Meanings And Things. It's Better Not To Know So Much About What Things Mean. Because The Meaning, It's A Very Personal Thing, And The Meaning For Me Is Different Than The Meaning For Somebody Else.

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

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.

I Have Been 'diving Within' Through The Transcendental Meditation Technique For Over 30 Years. It Has Changed My Life, My World. I Am Not Alone. Millions Of Other People Of All Ages, Religions, And Walks Of Life Practice The Technique And Enjoy Incredible Benefits.

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

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.

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.

I Love Industry. Pipes. I Love Fluid And Smoke. I Love Man-made Things. I Like To See People Hard At Work, And I Like To See Sludge And Man-made Waste.

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.

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 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.

You Need Contrast And Conflict In Order To Tell A Story. Stories Need To Have Dark And Light, Turmoil, All Those Things. But That Does Not Mean The Filmmaker Has To Suffer In Order To Show The Suffering. Stories Should Have The Suffering, Not The People.

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

Falling In Love

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 Always Say That Intuition Is The Number One Tool For An Artist.

I Have Smoked Marijuana, But I No Longer Do. I Went To Art School In The 1960s So You Can Imagine What Was Going On. Yet My Friends Were The Ones Who Said, "no, No, No, David, Don't Take Those Drugs." I Was Pretty Lucky.

I'm Obsessed With Textures. We're Surrounded By So Much Vinyl That I Find Myself Constantly In Pursuit Of Other Textures. One Time I Removed All The Hair From A Mouse With Nair-hair Just To See What It Looked Like. And It Looked Beautiful.

Dark Things Have Always Existed But They Used To Be In A Proper Balance With Good When Life Was Slower.

Angelo Badalamenti Brought Me Into The World Of Music And That's Really What Gave Me Permission To Get Into It Even Though I'm Not A Musician. It's Just An Intuitive Thing For Me.

Negativity Is The Enemy Of Creativity. For Instance If You're Filled With Depression, You Can Hardly Even Get Out Of Bed, Let Alone Feel Like Creating Something. If You Are Filled With Bitter, Selfish Anger, This Occupies The Mind And Leaves Little Room For Creative Ideas.

We're All Like Detectives. We Want To Figure Things Out. Life, You Know, We Want To Figure Out Life, And We Want To Figure Out What's Going On, So It's Beautiful. It's Beautiful That People Are Thinking.

I Was Creative Before I Started Meditating, But I Had, Looking Back, A Weakness. I Wasn't Self-assured. I Had A Little Bit Of Melancholy. I Had A Lot Of Anger For My Situations In Life, And I Would Take This Out On My First Wife.

Situations In Life

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 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.

I Didn't Watch Much Tv As A Kid And I Don' T Watch It Now. I Don' T Find Anything Beautiful Or Unique To The Medium, And The Only Thing You Can Do On Tv That You Can't Do In Film Is Make A Continuing Story - Which Is So Cool!

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

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

Transcendental Meditation

People Say My Films Are Dark. But Like Lightness, Darkness Stems From A Reflection Of The World. The Thing Is, I Get These Ideas That I Truly Fall In Love With. And A Good Movie Idea Is Often Like A Girl You're In Love With, But You Know She's Not The Kind Of Girl You Bring Home To Your Parents, Because They Sometimes Hold Some Dark And Troubling Things.

Falling In Love

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

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

Eraserhead Is My Most Spiritual Movie. No One Understands When I Say That, But It Is.

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

The More You Meditate The Better Life Gets.

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.

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.

In A Town Like Twin Peaks Noone Is Innocent

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.

Instead Of Instilling Fear, If A Company Offered A Way For Everyone In The Business To Dive Within-to Start Expanding Energy And Intelligence-people Would Work Overtime For Free. They Would Be Far More Creative. And The Company Would Just Leap Forward. This Is The Way It Can Be. It's Not The Way It Is, But It Could Be That Way So Easily.

In My Mind It's So Much Fun To Have Something That Has Clues And Is Mysterious - Something That Is Understood Intuitively Rather Than Just Being Spoon-fed To You. That's The Beauty Of Cinema, And It's Hardly Ever Even Tried. These Days, Most Films Are Pretty Easily Understood, And So People's Minds Stop Working.

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.

I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

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

Let's Get Rid Of The Suffering And Bring Real Peace, Which Is Not Just The Absence Of War, But The Absence Of All Negativity.

Intuition Is The Key To Everything, In Painting, Filmmaking, Business - Everything. I Think You Could Have An Intellectual Ability, But If You Can Sharpen Your Intuition, Which They Say Is Emotion And Intellect Joining Together, Then A Knowingness Occurs. Feeling Correct Is A Feeling I Think Everyone Knows.

Unfortunately, My Ideas Are Not What You'd Call Commercial, And Money Really Drives The Boat These Days. So I Don't Know What My Future Is. I Don't Have A Clue What I'm Going To Be Able To Do In The World Of Cinema.

A Lot Of Painters Listen To Music, I Think, While They Paint. But I Hate To Do That. It's A Horror. I Can't Really Listen To The Music. I'm Not Really Concentrating On It, And I'm Not Really Concentrating On The Painting.

I'm Not Any Different Than Anybody Else. But I Do See A World, For Me, That's Getting Better And Better, Not Worse And Worse. And I Believe That World Peace Is Coming Quicker Than We Think. And I Believe That People Are Not Only Yearning For It But Will See A Way To Get It And Help That Way To Come Sooner. And It's Going To Be Beautiful.

You've Got To Let Accidents And Strange Things Happen - Let It Work, So It's Got An Organic Sort Of Quality ... By Trying To Remove Yourself You Can See Some Fantastic Things Sometimes.

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.

Consciousness-based Education Is Just Plugging Us All Into The Beautiful, Eternal Field Within, And Then Watching Things Get Better, Which Is What Happens. It's A Field Of Infinite, Unbounded Peace Within Every Human Being, And When You Experience It, You Enliven That Peace.

Achievement Is Its Own Reward

Sex Is A Doorway To Something So Powerful And Mystical, But Movies Usually Depict It In A Completely Flat Way. Being Explicit Doesn't Tap Into The Mystical Aspect Of It Either In Fact, That Usually Kills It Because People Don't Want To See Sex So Much As They Want To Experience The Emotions That Go Along With It. These Things Are Hard To Convey In Film Because Sex Is Such A Mystery.

The Thing About Meditation Is: You Become More And More You.

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

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.

Every Single Thing In The World That Was Made By Anyone Started With An Idea. So To Catch One That Is Powerful Enough To Fall In Love With, It Is One Of The Most Beautiful Experiences. It's Like Being Jolted With Electricity And Knowledge At The Same Time.

Falling In Love

I Think That Ideas Exist Outside Of Ourselves. I Think Somewhere, We're All Connected Off In Some Very Abstract Land. But Somewhere Between There And Here Ideas Exist.

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

The Side Effect Of Expanding Consciousness Is That Negativity Starts To Evaporate; It Goes Away Like Darkness When You Turn On A Light. Many Students Have So Much Torment, Stress, Depression, Sorrow And Hate In Them These Days, But Then They Get This Technique And The Negativity Starts To Go Away. They Start To Feel Good Because The Torment Is Leaving. Their Health Gets Better And They Get Happier, Their Comprehension And Their Ability To Focus Grow, Their Grades Go Up And A Joy For Life Grows; All Of Which Comes From Within.

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.

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.'

Everyone Is On The Internet But They're Not All Talking With Each Other. There Are Groups Upon Groups Out There, But They Don't Talk To One Another. So While The Internet Brings Everyone Into A Shared Space, It Does Not Necessarily Bring Them Together.

In My Case What Happened Is That Within About Two Weeks Of Beginning Meditation, The Anger Already Started To Go Away. My Wife Came To Me And Said, "what's Going On?" And I Said, "what Are You Talking About?" To Which She Replied, "this Anger, Where Did It Go?" I Didn't Even Realize That My Anger Had Been Going Away.

We Only Dream Of Images We Already Have Inside Of Us.

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

I Like The Saying: "the World Is As You Are." And I Think Films Are As You Are. That's Why, Although The Frames Of A Film Are Always The Same - The Same Number, In The Same Sequence, With The Same Sounds - Every Screening Is Different. The Difference Is Sometimes Subtle But It's There. It Depends On The Audience. There Is A Circle That Goes From The Audience To The Film And Back. Each Person Is Looking And Thinking And Feeling And Coming Up With His Or Her Own Sense Of Things. And It's Probably Different From What I Fell In Love With.

I Wouldn't Know What To Do With [colour]. Colour To Me Is Too Real. It's Limiting. It Doesn't Allow Too Much Of A Dream. The More You Throw Black Into A Colour, The More Dreamy It Gets… Black Has Depth. It's Like A Little Egress; You Can Go Into It, And Because It Keeps On Continuing To Be Dark, The Mind Kicks In, And A Lot Of Things That Are Going On In There Become Manifest. And You Start Seeing What You're Afraid Of. You Start Seeing What You Love, And It Becomes Like A Dream.

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.

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.

Digital Video Is So Beautiful. It's Lightweight, Modern, And It's Only Getting Better. It's Put Film Into The La Brea Tar Pits.

There Is An Ocean Of Creativity Within Every Human Being.

I Like Things To Be Orderly.

When I Was Little In Spokane, Washington I Drew All The Time... And My Father Would Bring Paper Home... And I Mostly Drew Browning Automatic Water-cooled Sub-machine Guns... That Was My Favorite.

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

This Whole World Is Wild At Heart And Weird On Top.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

I Like To Make Films Because I Like To Go Into Another World. I Like To Get Lost In Another World. And Film To Me Is A Magical Medium That Makes You Dream... Allows You To Dream In The Dark. It's Just A Fantastic Thing, To Get Lost Inside The World Of Film.

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.

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

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.

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 - The Enormous Reservoir Of Energy And Intelligence That Is Deep Within All Of Us. This Is The Way To Save The Coming Generation.

You Could Say That Spirituality Is Bliss, And Bliss Is Physical Happiness, Emotional Happiness, Mental Happiness, And Spiritual Happiness. And It's Intense. It's An Intense Happiness. It Brings You Together With Everything.

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.

I Have To Make What I See, Whether It's A Painting, A Table, Or A Movie, Or It's Like A Death And What Would Be The Point Of That?

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.

Stories Always Have Held Conflicts And Contrasts, Highs And Lows, Life And Death Situations. And There Can Be Much Suffering In Stories, But Now We Say The Artist Doesn’t Have To Suffer To Show Suffering. You Just Have To Understand The Human Condition, Understand The Suffering.

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.

We're Like Lightbulbs. If Bliss Starts Growing Inside You, It's Like A Light; It Affects The Environment.

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.

Through The Darkness Of Future Past, The Magician Longs To See, One Chance Out Between Two Worlds, Fire Walk With Me!

I Like Cappuccino, Actually. But Even A Bad Cup Of Coffee Is Better Than No Coffee At All.

Stories Have Tangents; They Open Up And Become Different Things. You Can Still Have A Structure, But You Should Leave Room To Dream. If You Stay True To Your Ideas, Filmmaking Becomes An Inside-out, Honest Kind Of Process. And If It's An Honest Thing For You, There's A Chance That People Will Feel That, Even If It's Abstract.

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

This Is A Donut. It Is Very Sweet, And Very Good. But If You've Never Tasted A Donut, You Wouldn't Really Know How Sweet And How Good A Donut Is... Meditation Is Like That. Transcendental Meditation Gives An Experience Much Sweeter Than The Sweetness Of This Donut.

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

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

I Let The Actors Work Out Their Ideas Before Shooting, Then Tell Them What Attitudes I Want. If A Scene Isn't Honest, It Stands Out Like A Sore Thumb.

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.

Transcendental Meditation Is Like A Car, A Vehicle That Allows You To Go Within. It's A Mental Technique.

Meditation Is To Dive All The Way Within, Beyond Thought, To The Source Of Thought And Pure Consciousness. It Enlarges The Container, Every Time You Transcend. When You Come Out, You Come Out Refreshed, Filled With Energy And Enthusiasm For Life.

Enthusiasm For Life

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.

Somewhere In Talking And Rehearsing, There Is A Magical Moment Where Actors Catch A Current, They're On The Right Road. If They Really Catch It, Then Whatever They Do From Then On Is Correct And It All Comes Out Of Them From That Point On.

Forget Being The Best Of Anything. That's The Fruit Of The Action, And You Do The Work -they Say- For The Doing, Not The Fruit. You Can Never Really Know How It's Gonna Turn Out In The World But You Know If You Enjoy Doing It. And Ideas Start Flowing And You Start Getting, You Know, Excited About Stuff. Then You're Having A Great Time In The Doing And That's What It's All About. If You Don't Enjoy The Doing, Then Do Something Else.

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

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

Sometimes I Get Ideas For Lyrics In Anyplace, But I Work A Lot In The Studio. So I Collect Little Bits Of Lyrics. I Go Through The Box Of Lyrics I Have And See If Something Fits.

I Love Music, Of Course, And Many, Many, Many Genres. There Are Hardly Any Songs I Would Say That I Hate. There's A Couple, And I Don't Even Know Exactly Why I Don't Like Them.

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.

What Do You Fear, Most Of All? The Possibility That Love May Not Be Enough.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Joining Together

These Growth Hormones, Where Can I Get A Bunch Of Them? Is There Some Way That, With Electricity, You Could Stimulate Your Own Growth Hormones? Plug Yourself In For Five Minutes, There'd Be A Little Jolt, But You'd Get Used To It. It Wouldn't Be Bad At All; In Fact, You'd Get To Enjoy It, Probably. Then Away You'd Go, And Youth Wouldn't Be Wasted On The Young Anymore. You'd Be 25, With A 95-year-old Mind. Granddad Would Start Breaking Into Liquor Stores And Staying Out Late. Hope We Have It Soon!

Growth Hormones

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

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.

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.

Consciousness-based Education, Which I Am Helping To Promote, Is Basically The Same Education That Good Schools Are Giving Today With Transcendental Meditation Added For The Students, Teachers, Staff, And Principal.

When We Transcend We Are Diving Into A Field Of Unbounded Creativity. This Is Real Creativity And When We Experience That And Grow In That, We Can More Easily Find Solutions To Problems. We Can Get Ideas For Whatever It Is We're Working On. And We Will Get Happier By Transcending Every Day And We Will Find That We're Happier Doing Almost Anything. We'll Get More Energy To Do Our Work.

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

It's So Freeing, It's Beautiful In A Way, To Have A Great Failure, There's Nowhere To Go But Up.

I Like Making Films Because I Like To Go Into Another World. I Like To Get Lost Into Another World.

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.

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.

Chrysta Bell Looks Like A Dream And Chrysta Bell Sings Like A Dream. And The Dream Is Coming True.

Absurdity Is What I Like Most In Life, And There's Humor In Struggling In Ignorance. If You Saw A Man Repeatedly Running Into A Wall Until He Was A Bloody Pulp, After A While It Would Make You Laugh Because It Becomes Absurd.

The Human Being Is Like A Light Bulb. If A Human Being Is Super Stressed, Depressed And Filled With Negativity, This Is What That Human Being Radiates Out Into The World.

The Artist Does Not Have To Suffer To Show Suffering.

I Love Super Crispy, Almost Burned, Snapping-crispy Bacon.

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.

I Love Child Things Because There's So Much Mystery When You're A Child. When You're A Child, Something As Simple As A Tree Doesn't Make Sense. You See It In The Distance And It Looks Small, But As You Go Closer, It Seems To Grow - You Haven't Got A Handle On The Rules When You're A Child. We Think We Understand The Rules When We Become Adults But What We Really Experienced Is A Narrowing Of The Imagination.

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 Love Seeing People Come Out Of Darkness.

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

See, A Painting Is Much Cheaper Than Making A Film. And Photography Is, You Know, Way Cheap. So If I Get An Idea For A Film, There Are Many Ways To Get It Together And Go Realise That Film. There's Really Nothing To Be Afraid Of.

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.

Everyone's Got Consciousness.. . Grow That Ball Of Consciousness And All Avenues Of Life Improve. Your Work Just Blossoms.

If The People In A Relationship Were Able To Get Rid Of This Torment Within And Replace It With Happiness, Love, And A Sense Of Well-being, They Would Never Think To Hurt Another Human Being. They Would Be Filled With An Understanding Of Others And An Appreciation Of Others And Have An Ability To Reconcile Differences Without Any Violence Whatsoever, To Reconcile Differences In A Very Loving Way, A Very Happy Way.

With Each Experience Of The Unbounded Ocean Of Consciousness, You Infuse It Into Your Life And Therefore Expand Whatever Consciousness You Had To Begin With.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Find The Joy Of The 'doing' Increases. Creativity Increases. Intuition Increases. The Pleasure Of Life Grows. And Negativity Recedes.

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.

Francis Bacon Is One Of My Giant Inspirations. I Just Love Him To Pieces.

I'm Not Really Into Vinyl. There's Something About That Raw, Birth Of Rock And Roll Feel That Makes Me Crazy.

Sleep Is Really Important. You Need To Rest The Physiology To Be Able To Work Weel And Meditate Well. When I Don't Get Enough Sleep, My Meditations Are Duller. You May Even Dip Into Sleep At The Beginning Of Your Meditation, Because You're Settling Down. But If You're Well Rested, You'll Have A Clearer Deeper Experience.

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.

The Greatest Thing My Father Left Me Was A Love For Cutting Wood - My Love For Sawing, Especially Pine Wood.

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.

I'm Lost In A Transition. The Old Is Dead, And I Don't Know What The New Is. The Only Way To Find The New Is To Start Different Things And See If There's Something That Can Come Out Of Experimentation. It's Somewhat Unsettling, But It's A Hopeful Thing In A Way. I've Been Here Before, Lots Of Times.

In Hollywood, More Often Than Not, They're Making More Kind Of Traditional Films, Stories That Are Understood By People. And The Entire Story Is Understood. And They Become Worried If Even For One Small Moment Something Happens That Is Not Understood By Everyone.

The Ideas Dictate Everything.

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.

There's Always Fear Of The Unknown Where There's Mystery.

Fear Of The Unknown

Sugar Does Make People Happy, But Then You Fall Off The Edge After A Few Minutes, So I've Really Pretty Much Cut It Out Of My Diet. Except For Cupcakes. I Like Those.

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.

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

I Always Say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Is My Biggest Influence. But For Painters, I Like Many, Many Painters, But I Love Francis Bacon The Most, And Edward Hopper.

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

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.

I Like To Remember Things My Own Way. How I Remembered Them, Not Necessarily The Way They Happened.

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

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.

Float With Me In The World Of Ether.

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.

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

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