Was it hard to get people like Thich Nhat Hahn and Deepak Chopra to talk with you?
Well, the original idea didn’t involve getting noteworthy people. It was really just doing street interviews. We were going to show the answer to life’s ultimate questions and ask them to a broad cross section of people — blacks and whites, urbanites and rural folks, old and young people — and in their answers there would be this emerging face of oneness that would include all of these voices. It was only after a month of having the camera and doing street interviews that we said, “You know? Maybe we should try to get an author or someone well known.” So we sent a few e-mails to our favorite people, and 10 minutes after we sent a message to Robert Thurman, he e-mails us back and says, “We are all one,” and he invites us to his house. Then it was Deepak Chopra a week later. “We are all one,” he says. “You are right.” So it was really the oneness that was the key that opened the doors. The idea that “we are all one” has become a kind of New Age cliché. Yet there is some real power in i
