People Say I Am Mad. I Am

For Many Years, I Did Pantomime With Marcel Marceau. I Was A Writer For Him And Got To Know Very Well How To Use The Body For Illustration. I Wanted To Do A Mother Without Arms, But Using The Arms Of Her Son In Santa Sangre. The Tragedy Should Always Have Something Funny. Something Weird.

I Think The Art Of Filmmaking Is Something You Learn Through Actions, By Doing It, Not By Learning Theories. And As You Do It, Your Mind Starts To Change.

When The Bull's-eye Becomes As Big In Your Mind As An Elephant, You Are Sure To Hit It.

I Ask Of Cinema What Most North Americans Ask Of Psychedelic Drugs.

What I Am Trying To Do When I Use Symbols Is To Awaken In Your Unconscious Some Reaction. I Am Very Conscious Of What I Am Using Because Symbols Can Be Very Dangerous. When We Use Normal Language We Can Defend Ourselves Because Our Society Is A Linguistic Society, A Semantic Society. But When You Start To Speak, Not With Words, But Only With Images, The People Cannot Defend Themselves.