| Untagged | 4 Sep 2008 |
| Meditation and the story by david | |
I have a question about story. When you’re in meditation, the process of story—does it come to you visually? When I watch your films, they are like a meditation to me. And you use colors, and you use rhythm, and you use timing, and you also—your stories are surprising and always revealing. And I wonder how your meditation influences you in that way, and how you convey that on the set to the actors—how do you all work together to bring that to light?
There’s a thing: this field of consciousness is, they say, fullness. But it’s a fullness on the move—a wholeness on the move. And it is a flow of wholeness, a flow of fullness. And this is like a jazz thing, and this is like dance. And it’s like timing, and it’s like a knowingness. And it’s an understanding as well.
So when you start flowing with this—this thing about cinema being sequences of time, and the pacing of things—these things, you just realize how critical they are. And you want to get that thing just exactly right—all the elements of a film just as close to perfection as you can—so that the whole thing holds together and works, and possibly, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—if those parts are correct. And it’s all based on the original idea. But there’s something about—what you were saying—about this sequence that is a magical thing. And that can be enlivened from experiencing this field of consciousness.
