You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

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

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

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

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

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.