What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

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

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

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.