Does meditation help you get ideas for your movies?

I made Mulholland Drive, as some of you know, for a continuing story on television. So Mulholland Drive was going to be—this particular thing was going to be—the pilot: open-ended, and make you want to see, you know, more and more. And so ABC saw this, and I heard this story: the man who was making the decision saw it at 6:00 a.m.—watching television across the room, saw the thing on TV, having some coffee and making some phone calls. And he hated what he saw; it bored him. So he cut back, and I had it now, and I had the chance, fortunately, to make it into a feature. But I didn’t have the ideas. And you don’t use meditation—the dive within—to catch the ideas then.

Then, you’re expanding the container, and you come out very refreshed, filled with energy, and raring to go. And the process is so beautiful. But in this particular case, the day—almost the day I got the go-ahead to turn it into a feature, I had zero ideas how to do that. And I went into meditation, and somewhere about ten minutes in, ssssst! And like a string of pearls, it came. And it affected the middle, the beginning, and the end. And I felt very blessed. But that’s one time, you know, it happened during meditation.

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