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One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.