Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you're making money. You do the work because you love it.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

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

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

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

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."