When the bull’s-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It’s coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
If you are great, ‘El Topo’ is a great picture. If you are limited, ‘El Topo’ is limited.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
Words don’t heal. Art heals!
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.
Every artist – even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that – they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.