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.

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

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