“I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.”

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

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.

It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.

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.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

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 love seeing people come out of darkness.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

I am not the man I used to be.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it’s trying to save its body.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.