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.

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.

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Desire Eyes Temptation Work

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.

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Creation Kill Movie

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

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Age Body Change Person Talk

I just like going into strange worlds.

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Strange World

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

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Artist Suffering

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

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Creativity Enemy Negative

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

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Mystery Powerful Sex Way

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.

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Connection Existence Ideas Thinking

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.

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Afraid Better Fear Life

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.

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Fall Happiness People Time

Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

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Answer Meditation Start Transcendence True

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

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Dreams Image

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.

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Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World

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.

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Add Discover Ideal Movie World