I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

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

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

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.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird.