Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, or TM as it's often referred to, allows students to dive in and experience the unbounded ocean of consciousness within each of us, the big treasury, the field within each of us that is the base of all matter and all mind. It's been found that transcending and experiencing that unbounded, eternal level of life does wonders for education, and for human beings.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.