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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Room to Dream about Amazon, Book, strong><a with the genre: Arts & Photography, Photography & Video? Start with the sentence '<strong><a href="//www'.
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conversations.value: <strong><a href="//www.amazon.com/b/?node=17143709011">An Amazon Best Book of June 2018:</a></strong> With his aversions to linear storytelling and explanations of his often inscrutable films, a straightforward autobiography was probably never in the cards for iconoclast director and magnificent weirdo the author. Thats why the call-and-response construction of <em>Room to Dream </em> is ingenious. For this hybrid biography/memoir, critic-journalist (and longtime the author friend) Kristine McKenna tackled the just-the-facts biographical bits, very standardly organized in chapters describing pivotal periods of the authors life and career: childhood, art school, the making of <em>Elephant Man</em>, etc. the author read McKennas pieces and presented his own recollections in reply. Like his films, his memories are unconstrained by narrative, often dropping into peculiar moments that would appear later in his work, whether its a shocking moment from <em>Blue Velvet</em> or a seemingly inscrutable clue from <em>Twin Peaks</em>. the authors singular voice and stream-of-consciousness style are transmitted faithfully to the page, and a reader might imagine the author dictating his comments from a dark basement studio, speaking into a vintage chrome microphone. For fans, this is damn fine reading. <em>Jon Foro, Amazon Book Review</em>
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conversations.value: Do you know the first two paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Room to Dream
  Completed in twenty-two-and-a-half days on a budget of four million dollars, the pilot was primarily shot in Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Fall City, Washington. "They put the whole cast and crew in a Red Lion hotel and we filled the entire place," said Amick. "It was like being in a college dorm, with people running around and visiting each other's rooms."
  Cast as Lucy Moran, the eccentric secretary at the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department, Kimmy Robertson recalled the shooting of the pilot as "heaven. If I asked him nicely, he let me run my fingers through his hair. The hair that grows on top of that head and what's inside that head—you can feel that in his hair. David's hair does something and it has a function and the function has to do with God."
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  Completed in twenty-two-and-a-half days on a budget of four million dollars, the pilot was primarily shot in Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Fall City, Washington. "They put the whole cast and crew in a Red Lion hotel and we filled the entire place," said Amick. "It was like being in a college dorm, with people running around and visiting each other's rooms. "
  Cast as Lucy Moran, the eccentric secretary at the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department, Kimmy Robertson recalled the shooting of the pilot as "heaven. It was pure fun, and there were silly things with David that were magical to me. If I asked him nicely, he let me run my fingers through his hair. The hair that grows on top of that head and what's inside that head—you can feel that in his hair. David's hair does something and it has a function and the function has to do with God. "
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conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs? Start with the sentence 'When I cast something I like to start by looking at pictures, so I'm looking at pictures and I see this girl and I say, 'Whoa, she is beautiful and I want to meet her,' and that was Naomi Watts'.
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conversations.value: When I cast something I like to start by looking at pictures, so I'm looking at pictures and I see this girl and I say, 'Whoa, she is beautiful and I want to meet her,' and that was Naomi Watts. They got word to her and she flew out from New York and she came in and she looked nothing like her picture. Nothing like her picture! She didn't look bad, but she didn't look like her picture, and I wanted the girl in the picture. I thought, This is crazy! I'm imagining a person who doesn't exist! She'd come to meet me directly from the plane, so I asked her if she could come back again made up and she came back. Gaye Pope's son is named Scott Coffey, and Scott worked with Naomi on something, and he's in the kitchen when Naomi comes back. Scott and Naomi were talking and laughing about something, and I saw a side of Naomi because Scott was there, and I said, "Okay, she's perfect; she can do it," and that was it. She's perfect and the rest is history.
  The Cowboy kind of wandered into the film. I'm sitting in my chair and Gaye is over at the keyboard, and Gaye had this special quality. Gaye was fantastic. She wasn't particularly good as a secretary and was a little bit of a ding-a-ling, but she had good energy and that's way more important. When push came to shove, she was able to give orders and say no, so she had the stuff, but she always treated everybody well. Her sweetness made this beautiful cocoon where I could think of anything and not be afraid to say it out loud. She never judged anybody, and when I was with her I felt like I could say anything. A person like that is perfect for writing, and I could try things out and it was fine with her. The atmosphere of freedom she created was real conducive to catching ideas, so I'm sitting with Gaye and in walks the Cowboy and I start talking, and as I'm talking I'm picturing Monty.
  It's true that Los Angeles is kind of a character in the film. A sense of place is so important. The thing I love about Los Angeles is the light and the fact that it's spread out. It's not a claustrophobic place. Some people love New York, but I get claustrophobic there. It's too much.
  I used to think I liked the desert in Southern California, but I really hate the desert. I had a large piece of beef for dinner in the desert. I never eat red meat but that's what they served on this particular night, and I slept in someone else's bed that night and had a dream that was so horrible and diabolical that the whole next day I had to mentally fight a thing that was going on. I don't remember what the dream was, but I remember the feeling, and I couldn't talk to anybody and had to be alone to fight it mentally. It was only when I got back to L.A. that it lifted. That ended the desert for me. There are places with bad vibes and places with good vibes, and I slept and ate in a bad place.
  There are weird things in L.A., too, for sure. I remember the Sunday I went to the Copper Penny with Jennifer and had a Grand Slam. Jen and I were sitting in the booth and behind me I heard people talking and they were fantastic. It was Sunday and they were having a discussion about God and many passages in the Bible. They seemed intelligent and nice. I thought, It's great that people are talking like that on a sunny Sunday morning. Then we get up and walk out and Jen said, "Do you know who that was sitting behind us?" It was the head of the satanic church.
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conversations.value: My childhood was very happy, and I think that set me up in life. I really did have a great family that gave me a good foundation, and that's super important. I may not've been the best father to my kids, because I wasn't around much, but my father was never around much, either. And yet he was around, you know? In those days there seemed to be a kids' world and an adult world and they didn't really mix much. Maybe it's not the presence of the father but the love that you feel coming through that's important. Still, I think my father was a better father than I am.
  I'm happy I went on the sixteen-country tour for Maharishi. Even though I don't like public speaking, I get blissful telling people about the knowledge and technologies Maharishi revived for the world. Maharishi had two goals: the enlightenment of individuals, and peace on earth. He put everything needed in place for both to happen. It's now just a question of time. If we humans—or even a few of us—work together on this, we can speed through this transition and the goals will be a living reality. Enlightenment for the people and real peace on earth. Real peace is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity. Everyone wins.
  Seven versions: 1–5 minutes, 5 seconds; 2—5 minutes, 6 seconds; 3—5 minutes, 25 seconds; 4—5 minutes, 21 seconds; 5—5 minutes, 42 seconds; 6—4 minutes, 46 seconds; 7—4 minutes 26 seconds / color / live action
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conversations.value: My childhood was very happy, and I think that set me up in life. I really did have a great family that gave me a good foundation, and that's super important. I may not've been the best father to my kids, because I wasn't around much, but my father was never around much, either. And yet he was around, you know? In those days there seemed to be a kids' world and an adult world and they didn't really mix much. Maybe it's not the presence of the father but the love that you feel coming through that's important. Still, I think my father was a better father than I am.
  I'm happy I went on the sixteen-country tour for Maharishi. Even though I don't like public speaking, I get blissful telling people about the knowledge and technologies Maharishi revived for the world. Maharishi had two goals: the enlightenment of individuals, and peace on earth. He put everything needed in place for both to happen. It's now just a question of time. If we humans—or even a few of us—work together on this, we can speed through this transition and the goals will be a living reality. Enlightenment for the people and real peace on earth. Real peace is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity. Everyone wins.