If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

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

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.