I started doing drugs in college and I feel that they help me cope with the stress of my everyday life, and even seem to increase my creativity. I am aware that they do damage to my body, and I intend to quit eventually, but my life is pretty stressful, and I keep coming back to drugs to just unwind. Do you have any experience with drugs? Can meditation replace them or help quit?

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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.

I’ve heard you speak about consciousness and how it develops through Transcendental Meditation. Does this development of consciousness help you find ideas?

Little fish swim on the surface, but the big ones swim down below. If you can expand the container you’re fishing in—your consciousness—you catch bigger fish.

Here’s how it works: Inside every human being is an ocean of pure, vibrant

Recently there have been many news reports about you praising Transcendental Meditation. You say you’ve been practicing TM for thirty years. Why do you speak about it so much today?

One of the main things that got me talking publicly about Transcendental Meditation was seeing the difference it can make to kids. Kids are suffering. Stress is now hitting them at a younger and younger age, at just

I have a desire to create, but only a very vague idea on what my creation will be and how to proceed. You seem to get so many brilliant ideas. How do you get started? What motivates you to keep going?

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you’re fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas.

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