I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.