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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.
Love
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.
Wisdom
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
Wisdom
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
Love
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.
Life
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.
Wisdom
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
Wisdom
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.
Life
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
Life
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Life
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.
Wisdom
I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.
Love
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.
Life
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
Wisdom
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Wisdom
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.
Life
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
Wisdom
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
Love
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Wisdom
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
Love
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