The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

I don't see myself as a movie maker only. When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live. I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

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

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

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."

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