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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. "

" I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money. "

" I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. "

" Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. "

" I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. "

" 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. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. "

" I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. "

" You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. "

" 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. "

" I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. "

" I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. "

" 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. "

" A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. "

" 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. "