Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

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.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.