I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.