It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.

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

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.