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

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

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

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

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.