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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

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. — Alejandro Jodorowsky