You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

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

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.