What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

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.

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

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.

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.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.