No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

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

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.