Fresh Air's Terry Gross recently interviewed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and, when she asked him his thoughts about what he thinks happens after death, Scorsese referenced the mental state one has as an artist in the midst of creating:
There's something that happens that's transcendent. I'm talking about trying to find a moment of that. I think it approaches sometimes when we create something and we feel something from what we create that gets us close, I think, to a sense of transcending the material.