I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

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.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

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.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.