Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.
It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.
When I take on something, I take the whole thing on. It's not even a question of separating, "Oh, am I going to be naked?" If you know you have to do something in life, for me, I go with my whole person.
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a very hard working set. He has such an intense level of dedication to what's happening that he cultivates a group of people around him who have an equal level of dedication. Nobody asks, "When is lunch?" That's just not part of our sets. It's complete immersion. He has a 'no cell phone' rule. Nobody checks their cell phone. Nobody reads on set. It's like, "If you're there, you're there. If you're not on board with that, don't work on this movie."
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
