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.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate yourself. Do it. Believe in yourself. Let a good seed be a good seed now, and then we'll have a good tree.

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.

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

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.