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.

The beautiful

Will you please elaborate on the ideas catching theme in your book and how it relates to making movies?

An idea is a thought. It’s a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it but in that first moment there is a spark. In a comic strip, if someone gets an idea, a lightbulb goes on. It happens in an instant, just as in life.

It would be great if the entire film came all

I am a writer, creativity is important to me, and some of your ideas really got me thinking: much as I like them, they clash with the way I feel about my craft. Meditation can give you bliss, you say; but when you open your eyes, you still find life to be full of suffering; you may even suffer yourself, and I don’t think it’s necessarily bad. It’s often said that stress motivates an artist;