Catching the Big Fish

A sense of place is so critical in cinema, because you want to go into another world. Every story has its own world, and its own feel, and its own mood. So you try to put together all these things—these little details—to create that sense of place.

You have to learn to find balance in success and failure. Success can kill you just as failure can. And the only way

to have balance in success and failure is to function on that Unified Field level. There’s your friend. You can’t fake it—you’re either in that field or you’re not. And when that field is fully enlivened, you can’t lose, no matter what happens.

Truth makes fire burn and the air move, makes the sun shine and all life grow. A hidden truth supports everything. Find it and win.

“Where the attention is, that becomes lively.” So when you focus on a thing, it’s almost as if you start it moving and vibrating.

You try some things and you make mistakes, but you rearrange, add other stuff, and then it feels the way that idea felt.

The more the artist is suffering, the less creative he is going to be. It’s

André Previn’s

Just by changing something, the desire often gets fulfilled.