If You Are Great, 'el Topo' Is

People Say I Am Mad. I Am Not Mad. I Am Trying To Heal My Soul.

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.

I Don't Want To Make A Style. Not Tragedy, Not Comedy. Life Is A Mixing Of All Kind Of Things: Comedy And Tragedy Going Together.

Awakening Is Not A Thing. It Is Not A Goal, Not A Concept. It Is Not Something To Be Attained. It Is A Metamorphosis. If The Caterpillar Thinks About The Butterfly It Is To Become, Saying ‘and Then I Shall Have Wings And Antennae,’ There Will Never Be A Butterfly. The Caterpillar Must Accept Its Own Disappearance In Its Transformation. When The Marvelous Butterfly Takes Wing, Nothing Of The Caterpillar Remains.

Birds Born In Cages Think That Flying Is A Disease.