My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

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!

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.

The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind.

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