I got one big question all kind of muddled in here—don’t know quite how to say it, but I’ll try to get it out. Insofar as the physical act of going to the movies can mimic or mirror falling asleep and participating in a dream, that your cast of characters, your protagonist, is you—you’re participating, but not in control—that you’re affected by it, and not, at the same time—do you believe that there’s something inherent in the ritual of sitting down in the darkened theater and looking up at dancing lights on the screen that can evoke or inspire a meditative experience? And if so, how—and if abstract images play into that, or if you believe that’s possible.

It’s so magical—and I don’t know why—to go into a theater, and have the lights go down. And it’s very quiet, and then the curtains start to open. Maybe they’re red. And you go into a world. And it’s beautiful when it’s a shared experience, and it’s beautiful when you’re at home and your theater in front of you—it’s not so good. It’s good on a big screen—it’s the best to go into a world, to go into a world—so beautiful. And I think it would be possible to transcend if you heard and saw the correct things. It could be.

Now the thing is that transcending is not foreign to us as human beings. The thing about meditation: it’s a specific technique that guarantees transcending during that time. But transcending: we’ve all just—between waking and sleeping, they say there’s a gap; you can transcend, and feel bliss, or see light and feel that bliss. We’ve all had that experience. So I say there could be something like this happening in cinema, if it was known how to do it. I don’t know how to do it. 

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