Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.