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

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

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.

This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

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.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.