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- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a purist.
- Sacred
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tarot is sacred.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is an art, you know.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an honest artist.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
- Nov 07, 2020
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.
- Nov 07, 2020
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are finished.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We only have problems we really want to have.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
- Illness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
- Dali
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true artist is always out of his time.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020