For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.
I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don’t do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.
Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.
If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.
The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.
Human society has dense borders – economic, religious and cultural – inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, ‘Ah, I am alive still!’ All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It’s coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.