When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

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

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.