I Let The Actors Work Out Their

Surface Cures Are Not Going To Get Rid Of The Torment That's Inside.

In Film, Life-and-death Struggles Make You Sit Up, Lean Forward A Little Bit. They Amplify Things Happening, In Smaller Ways, In All Of Us. These Things Show Up In Relationships. They Show Up In Struggles And Bring Them To A Critical Point.

Transcendental Meditation Is A Mental Technique, So You Travel To This Field Through Subtler Levels Of Mind, And Then Subtler Levels Of Intellect, And Then, At The Border Of Intellect, You Transcend And Experience It.

I Felt I Should Have Been The Happiest Person In The World. But I Looked Inside, And That Happiness Was Only On The Surface, Not So Deep. Beneath It Was Hollow. Up Until That Time, I Had Been Thinking Meditation Was A Joke, A Fad And A Waste Of Time.

I Would Rather Not Make A Film Than Make One Where I Don't Have Final Cut.