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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

To Me, A Story Can Be Both Concrete And Abstract, Or A Concrete Story Can Hold Abstractions. And Abstractions Are Things That Really Can't Be Said So Well With Words.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Falling In Love

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.

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

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.

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I Like Things To Be Orderly.

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Be True To Yourself. Don't Take No For An Answer. And Start Your Transcendental Meditation.

Be True To Yourself

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

Joining Together

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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Going Gets Tough

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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?

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.

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Situations In Life

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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.

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.

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

Tied To Consciousness Are All Positive Qualities, So That Ocean Within Is An Ocean Of Unbounded Intelligence, Unbounded Creativity, Unbounded Happiness, Unbounded Love, Unbounded Energy, And Unbounded Peace. And When Students Start Expanding Consciousness In Those Positive Qualities, Their Relationships Improve, Their Grades Go Up, Their Happiness Goes Up, The Fighting And Bullying Stops, And Things Get Very, Very, Very Good.

I Just Hope That I Get A Chance To Keep Making Pictures In The Atmosphere Of Freedom To Make Mistakes, And To Find Those Magical Things. Then I Don't Care What Else Happens.

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

New Mysteries. New Day. Fresh Doughnuts.

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.

Surface Cures Are Not Going To Get Rid Of The Torment That's Inside.

The Side Effect Of Expanding Consciousness Is That Negativity Starts To Evaporate; It Goes Away Like Darkness When You Turn On A Light.

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

Tenderness Can Be Just As Abstract As Insanity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

It's Crazy To Close Doors To Any Genres.

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.

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.

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.

A Filmmaker Doesn't Have To Suffer To Show Suffering. You Just Have To Understand It. You Don't Have To Die To Shoot A Death Scene.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes Film Kills The Room To Dream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The World Is As You Are.

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

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.

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.

Falling In Love

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.

The More You Meditate The Better Life Gets.

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.

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

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

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.

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

People Think In Hollywood There's A Family, Where Everybody Gets Together Talks About Stuff And We All Know Each Other, And It's Just Not That Way At All To Me.

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.

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.

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.

Individual Peace Is The Unit Of World Peace.

We Want To Generate The Electricity Of Peace Through Music, And It’s A Thrill To Know That The Super-creative, Enthusiastic Musicians Of Our World Are With Us To Achieve This Goal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Desire For An Idea Is Like Bait. When You're Fishing, You Have To Have Patience. You Bait Your Hook, And Then You Wait. The Desire Is The Bait That Pulls Those Fish In-those Ideas.

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.

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

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.

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.

Falling In Love

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.

The Ocean Of Solutions Is Within, Enliven That. It's A World Of Clues, A World Of Mystery But The Mystery Can Get Solved, You Can Find A Lot Of Answers For These Things Within.

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.

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.

Well, I've Been Blessed With Good Hair, Or At Least Some People Think It Is. It Is The Way It Is, Sort Of Does What It Wants To. So, Yeah, I Guess It Is [a Metaphor For Your Views On Art And Life].

The Cinema Is Really Built For The Big Screen And Big Sound, So That A Person Can Go Into Another World And Have An Experience.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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