I Always Say That Intuition Is The

You Need Contrast And Conflict In Order To Tell A Story. Stories Need To Have Dark And Light, Turmoil, All Those Things. But That Does Not Mean The Filmmaker Has To Suffer In Order To Show The Suffering. Stories Should Have The Suffering, Not The People.

When You Practice Transcendental Meditation You Are Given A Key To The Deepest Level Of Life.

I Like The Saying: "the World Is As You Are." And I Think Films Are As You Are. That's Why, Although The Frames Of A Film Are Always The Same - The Same Number, In The Same Sequence, With The Same Sounds - Every Screening Is Different. The Difference Is Sometimes Subtle But It's There. It Depends On The Audience. There Is A Circle That Goes From The Audience To The Film And Back. Each Person Is Looking And Thinking And Feeling And Coming Up With His Or Her Own Sense Of Things. And It's Probably Different From What I Fell In Love With.

A Film - Especially When It's A Personal Film - Is Going To Hit Somebody Or It's Not. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

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 Tv That You Can't Do In Film Is Make A Continuing Story - Which Is So Cool!