The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

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.

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.