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Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.
In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
I shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.