Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

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

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Words don't heal. Art heals!