I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

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

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.