What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

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.

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.

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

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

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.