“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”

O interview (2003)
Context: I want to direct a movie in Mexico, in Spanish. The story is about how when we're really young, our dreams are colorful and big and abstract and interesting and imaginative. As the realities of life hit, our dreams become so common. To dream big doesn't necessarily mean to imagine becoming the biggest movie star in the world. Dreaming big is about taking the simplest thing in life and enjoying it — and seeing it as the biggest thing that can possibly exist. … I work in an industry that is the first to kill this ability because everything is so celebrity oriented. I am part of a cancer. In my world, you have to be so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous — and I don't believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are.

Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962)

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Source: Kafka on the Shore

Source: Surprise Endings

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933), Prologue

2010s, Address to the United States Congress