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

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

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