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In the opening of the film, the Dalai Lama speaks about how this will not be an easy century, and he\u2019s definitely right about that so far. He talks about all the fear, anger and hatred out there. Do you feel like this film and the Dalai Lama\u2019s message is arriving at a time where it\u2019s needed more than ever?<\/strong><\/p>\n When the directors brought the film to me, they were still figuring out exactly what it was, and we were approaching the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, and I thought that this could be the centerpiece of celebrating His Holiness. And it does. You see the life and history of an extraordinary person. In the meantime, the world has fallen off a cliff \u2014 everywhere. I travel a lot, and it’s not just in the U.S. People are living in a dissonant, crazy reality. So I think the film is actually functioning as medicine, as a corrective of, \u201cOkay, time out. Let’s look at who we are right now. How did we get here? How can we stop this? And imagine the positive universe, which is closer to the truth of who we are and who we can become as a world.\u201d<\/p>\n After watching the film, it\u2019s hard not to want to aspire to the vision that he sees, one of peace, happiness and compassion. It kind of puts the onus on all of us to do what we individually can.<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019re completely responsible for your experience of the world. And the beginning point of changing the world is changing yourself and doing the work. His Holiness is 90 years old and he still gets up at 3:30 in the morning to do hours of practice before he meets people and has his functioning world. And he’s the Dalai Lama! For us, we find it hard to have five minutes where we can go and do something, and we think we’re holy. His Holiness is optimistic but also committed. This is his life. This is authentically who he is. He’s here to help everyone; even who I would call \u201cthe bad guys\u201d are saved in his universe. From his point of view, they’re consumed by an illness whose root is self-cherishing, and it’s led them to ignorance, to behave and think and do things in the world the way they behave right now. But you can remove the illness and then you have that basic human being who is that loving, kind child who wants to be held.<\/p>\n The Dalai Lama is this larger-than-life figure, but, as someone who knows him as well as you do, what might surprise people about him as an actual real human being?<\/strong><\/p>\n When we re-edited the film, we looked at all the raw footage, and there was this wonderful stuff where His Holiness was just coming into the room for the interview. He’s 90 years old, so they were helping him sit, and he had his glasses and he didn’t know where he was supposed to go. They had cut that out before, and I said, \u201cNo, this is so human.\u201d We would all be like, \u201cOkay, what am I supposed to do? What do you want from me?\u201d So we left all that in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The relevance of this film is, these things that we\u2019re talking about, the negative emotions, the self-cherishing, the tribal stuff, there’s nothing innately there that makes us a Democrat, a Republican, a human being, an animal. These are all mental states that can come and go, and we can control that kind of thing. 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