I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises – they’re like little flowers. I’ve always said that if you have a name...

We’re taking our experience with Delphi and working with these materials to make batteries perform better than we’ve ever seen. Who would have thought?

Alright David, it’s been wonderful talking to you!

You’re right on the money with that. We’re all like detectives in life. There’s something at the end of the trail that we’re all looking for.

People out there know the schools are in trouble,

I don’t think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great – I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

The first goal is to get 10,000 students practicing Transcendental Meditation in the U.S. to create a wave of peace in America that will be a catalyst for peace in the world. It will be...

In my mind, there’s no connection between the gift [Runner] received and her position [on pharmaceutical issues]. Any gift that she received, that was equally distributed; it is safe to assume that others also received...

The proof is in the pudding,

Bring it out and see what happens.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

It’s the superhighway to the gold. This causes negativity to go like sunlight causes darkness to go.

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear – these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you’re suffering you can’t create.

I always say ideas are like fishing,

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie...

It seems like a ton of money, but then when you work out how shoe string we are, for example, our food budget per student is $5.25 a day.

Death in my mind isn’t a finality. There’s a continuum: It’s like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it’s a new day.

The goal is basically to raise money – I would like to raise $7 billion,

This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a “setup.” For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may...

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you’re dead.

It’s knowledge in terms of the self and it works wonders in children,

It doesn’t do any good to say, ‘This is what it means.’ When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

cinematic.

The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.

It’s so possible, … You have education that brings a student to his full potential, and it’s so possible to set up peacemaking groups to bring peace to Earth. It’s so possible.

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life,...

I got the idea to start the foundation from my own benefits, … My foundation raises money to any student who is interested in meditation. Our goal is to send a wave of peace across...

What I like so very much about this meditation is that you can take what you’ve learned and go about your business, … I can use those classroom techniques anywhere, which is ideal for me...

I didn’t watch much TV as a kid and I don’ t watch it now . I don’ t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on...

I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without...

There’s no conflict, … The first thing is the Kingdom of Heaven. And when you dive within, and you become part of the light, you’re reaching that place. It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing.

I’m not on a sales pitch

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it...

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they’re on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and...

Tell them there’s an ocean of bliss! … It’s like diving within makes you experience subtler fields of consciousness, intellect and even love. And it makes you feel so good!

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I would love for the government to step up to the plate and assist us. That’s what I’d like.

You’re right on the money with that, … We’re all like detectives in life. There’s something at the end of the trail that we’re all looking for.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story – the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.