If Art Is Not A Medicine For

Movies Have Heart. Have Mind. Have Power. Have Ambition.

I Have An Ambition To Live 300 Years. I Will Not Live 300 Years. Maybe I Will Live One Year More. But I Have The Ambition. Why You Will Not Have Ambition? Why? Have The Greatest Ambition Possible. You Want To Be Immortal? Fight To Be Immortal. Do It. You Want To Make The Most Fantastic Art Or Movie? Try. If You Fail, Is Not Important. We Need To Try.

I Don't Think Of An Actor. I Think In The Character, And Then I Search For The Actor. Usually I'm Thinking Without Names, Because They Will Change My Idea. No Big Egos. If I Want Egos - Just Mine. That Is Enough.

Humanity Are Not Individuals; We Are Collective. And If We Have Difference, We Have Wars All The Time. We Have Crisis. We Need To Open Our Mind. This Is The Only Solution We Have.

If You Are Great, 'el Topo' Is A Great Picture. If You Are Limited, 'el Topo' Is Limited.