Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

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

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.