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When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Books are finished.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
A true artist is always out of his time.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The tarot is sacred.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't live in France, I live in myself.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
You can't have a masterpiece without madness,
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I was raping Frank Herbert but with love.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures ... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am old, but I feel very beautiful.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am an honest artist.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
In order to be something, you must do something.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Words don't heal. Art heals!
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
— Steve Erickson
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
