To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.