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Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean
Director
Born:
Feb 17
,
1929
Am
Every
Life
Me
Picture
You
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Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Day
You
Every
Others
One Day
Be Different
Normal
Normality
Person
Same
Difference
Different
Different Person
Your
Aware
Need
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thought
Ocean
Waves
Miraculous
Unconscious
Scientific
Same
Two
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Together
Comedy
Life Is A
Kind
Mixing
Tragedy
Going
Things
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
Every
Beneath
Prohibition
Fact
Superstition
Very
Illness
Conscious
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
God
Heart
Speak
Awareness
Every
Must
Temple
Priest
Begin
Us
Body
Your
Your Body
Each
Each One
Inner
Here
In order to be something, you must do something.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
You
Must
Something
Order
Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Every
Makes
His
Person
Artist
Artwork
I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Funny
Dress
Liked
Lady
Gaga
Meat
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Old
Energy
She
Surrealist
Lot
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Fantastic
Using
Images
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Important
Become
Subconscious
Too
Respectable
Something
Rationalism
Had
Between
Halt
Surrealism
Intellectual
Essential
Romantic
Ground
Bridge
Even
Gap
Necessary
Early
Started
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Death
Problem
Everybody
Massive
Accepting
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Clouds
Every
Films
Changing
Minute
Like
Meaning
Keeps
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Truth
You
Together
Speak
Plant
Spider
Made
Mouth
String
Secrets
Inside
Web
Drink
Take
Bottle
Cactus
Between
Like
Sticks
Leaves
Mexico
Behind
Want
Your
Deep
Shows
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Change
Age
Hate
Society
Inculcated
Borders
Religious
Economic
Cultural
Dense
Human
Human Society
Early
Early Age
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
World
Lot
Violence
Violent
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
Attitude
Time
You
World
Space
Live
Every
Different
Us
Different World
Lives
Image
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art
Me
You
Soul
Picture
Side
Poetry
Unconscious
Like
Make
Understand
Am
Coming
Intellectual
Artist
Place
Your
Deep
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Day
Tired
Every Day
Idiot
Become
Every
Months
See
Pictures
Industrial
Two
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chile
Movies
Popular
Awful
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Three
Country
Abandoned
Andre
Adolescent
Paris
Come
Know
Him
Years
Surrealism
Surrealist
Being
Working
Pope
I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alone
Me
No-One
Because
Felt
Boy
Friends
Wanted
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art
Cinema
Thought
Complete
Most
Always
Arts
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hope
Day
Me
Christ
Will
Sit
Tea
One Day
Table
See
Some
Eating
Prophet
Buddha
Taking
Come
Am
Maybe
Confucius
Really
Muhammad
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mind
Living
Am
Normal
Normal Person
Person
Body
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Family
Father
Monster
See
Never
Again
Them
Cut
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Woman
Cats
Five
Need
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