The first dive -- Suffocating rubber clown suit -- Starting out -- The art life -- A garden at night -- Curtains up -- Cinema -- Interpretation -- The circle -- Ideas -- Desire -- Consciousness -- Translating the idea -- Los Angeles -- Eraserhead -- The pace of life -- Yogis -- Bob's big boy -- The angriest dog in the world -- Music -- Intuition -- The unified field -- The fourth state -- Getting there -- Modern science and ancient science -- Anywhere, anytime -- Identity -- Final cut -- Therapy -- Dreams -- Angelo Badalamenti -- Sound -- Casting -- Rehearsal -- Fear -- All together now -- Twin Peaks -- The continuing story -- The red room -- Ask the idea -- Test audience -- Generalizations -- Darkness -- Suffering -- Light of the self -- A tower of gold -- Religion -- Drugs -- Turn on the light -- Industrial symphony no. 1 -- Lost highway -- Restrictions -- Mulholland Drive -- The box and the key -- A sense of place -- Beauty -- Texture -- Working with wood -- Having a setup -- Fire -- Light on film -- The straight story -- Heroes of film -- Fellini -- Kubrick -- Inland empire -- The name -- A new way to work -- Director's commentary -- The death of film -- DV for young filmmakers -- DV quality -- Future of cinema -- Common sense -- Advice -- Sleep -- Keep at it -- Success and failure -- Gone fishing, again -- Compassion -- Consciousness-based education -- Real peace -- In closing -- Coda: true happiness lies within.