I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

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

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.