curtains up
cinema is a language it can say things
big abstract things and I love that
about it
some people are poets and have a
beautiful way of saying things with
words but cinema is its own language and
so you can express a feeling and a
thought that can't be conveyed any other
way it's a magical medium
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for me it's so beautiful to think about
these pictures and sounds flowing
together in time and in sequence making
something that can be done only through
cinema it's so magical I don't know why
to go into a theater and have the lights
go down it's very quiet and then the
curtains start to open and you go into a
world
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although the frames of a film are always
the same the same number in the same
sequence and with the same sounds every
screening is different there's a circle
that goes from the audience to the film
and back each person is looking and
thinking and feeling and coming up with
their own sense of things I like a story
that holds abstraction and that's what
cinema can do
I was a painter I painted and I went to
art school I had no interest in film one
day I was sitting in a big studio room
and I had a painting going which was of
a garden at night it had a lot of black
with green plants emerging out of the
darkness
all of a sudden these plants started to
move and I heard a wind I thought oh how
fantastic this is and I began to wonder
if film could be a way to make paintings
move
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 desire for an idea is
like bait you bait your hook and then
you wait the desire is the bait that
pulls those fish in those 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 can catch bigger
fish
when I started meditating I was filled
with anxieties and fears I felt a sense
of depression and anger anger and
depression and sorrow are beautiful
things in a story but they're like
poison to the filmmaker or artist you
must have clarity to create you have to
be able to catch ideas
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life is filled with abstraction and the
only way we make heads or tails of it is
through intuition intuition is seeing
the solution it's emotion and intellect
going together
personally I think intuition can be
sharpened and expanded through
meditation diving into the self there's
an ocean of consciousness inside each of
us in it's an ocean of solutions when
you dive into that ocean that
consciousness you enliven it it grows
and the final outcome of this growth of
consciousness is called enlightenment
which is the full potential for us all
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there are many many dark things flowing
around in this world now and most films
reflect the world in which we live in
stories in the worlds that we go into
their suffering confusion darkness
tension and anger but the filmmaker
doesn't have to be suffering to show
suffering negativity is like darkness
you turn on the light and darkness goes
we're like lightbulbs
if bliss starts growing inside you it's
like a light you enjoy that light inside
and if you ramp it up brighter and
brighter you enjoy more and more of it
and that light will extend out farther
and farther
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maybe enlightenment is far away but it
said that when you walk toward the light
with every step things get brighter
every day for me gets better and better
and I believe that enlivening unity in
the world will bring peace on earth
so I say peace to all of you
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