In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

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.

I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.

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.

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

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.