I get plenty of ideas that I like but I find it difficult to translate them into something practical. Does meditation help you translate your ideas into art?

To me, every film, every project, is an experiment. How do you translate this idea? How do you translate it so that it goes from an idea to a film or to a chair? You’ve got this idea, and you can see it and hear it and feel it and know it. Now, let’s say you start cutting a piece of wood and it’s just not exactly right. That makes you think more, so you can take off from that. You’re now acting and reacting. So it’s kind of an experiment to get it all to feel correct.

When you meditate, that flow increases. Action and reaction go faster. You’ll get an idea here, then you’ll go there, and then there. It’s like an improvisational dance. You’ll just be zipping along; you’ll be banging on all eight cylinders.

And it’s not a pretend thing; it’s not a feel-good program, when they tell you, “Stop and smell the roses, and your life will get better.” It comes from within. It has to start from deep within, and grow and grow. Then things really change.

So transcend, experience the Self—pure consciousness—and watch what happens.

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