We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

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!

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Santa Sangre is the picture I love the best, myself, because El Topo and The Holy Mountain I made with my head, and Santa Sangre I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.