So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!

It gives me a lot of joy when I wear my design at a show and someone asks me who designed my costume.