Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

Free trade should not mean free labor.