You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

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

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

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.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.