“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 want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.”

“During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within myself, the sacred books I know by heart. I had the idea I should summarize them in a single volume. Then, in a single chapter, then in a single page, and finally in a single sentence. This sentence is the greatest thing I can teach you. It seems simple, but if you understand it, you will never have to study again." The Rabbi recited it. And life, from that moment on, changed for Alejandro. "If God is not here, He is nowhere; this instant itself is perfection.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.”

“Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.”

“For me they are no different, reality and dreams.”

“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.”

“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.”