David Lynch

The ocean of pure consciousness that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi talks about is also known by modern science as the Unified Field.

Transcendental Meditation is a simple, easy, effortless technique that allows any human being to dive within, to experience subtler levels of mind and intellect, and to enter this ocean of pure consciousness, the Unified Field— the Self.

It’s an experience that you can have just before you go to sleep. You’re awake, but you experience a sort of fall, and you maybe see some white light and get a little jolt of bliss.

The thing about meditation is: You become more and more you.

When you meditate and bliss starts coming up inside, it is not as painful. You can ride through things like this and live through it.

What’s also really interesting is that when you work with somebody, you pick that person for a particular role. But then, during lunch or something, you see another side of that person. And you remember that. So if there’s another role that comes up, and somebody says, “Well, Kyle couldn’t do that,” you may remember this side of him and say, “Yes, he could.”

There’s a lot of talking, especially at first. You can say many things, sometimes strange and stupid words. But you develop these little codes with certain actors or actresses. For me, for example, “more wind” means “more mystery.” It’s a weird thing

When people say “rehearsal,” they’re usually talking only about actors. But there’s a rehearsal that goes on with all the people of the crew, in every department. The idea is to get everybody to come together and go down the same track—the track indicated by the ideas.

go down the same track

You’re always thinking of that original idea—the mood, the character. And through talking, rehearsing, talking, rehearsing, pretty soon it comes.