I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? 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 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.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.

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