54 Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Chilean Director

Born: Feb 17, 1929

Am Every Life Me Picture You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life Man Will My Life Cried Never Cry How Am Cannot

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Great You Picture Limited

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!' Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am still radical! Alejandro Jodorowsky

Radical Am Still

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Will Television Television Series Pretty Only Soon Longer Movies Series

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Father Three Cried Later Cat Days Cry Lot Did Died

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alone Books Shakespeare Adventures Friends Child Lived

I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life Me Interest

For me they are no different, reality and dreams. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Dreams Me Reality Different

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I'm a purist. Alejandro Jodorowsky

The tarot is sacred. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sacred Tarot

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Mother Wife Think Saved Could Sons Died Her Second

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Old Pay Years Tax Income Income Tax Started

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Love You World Important Give Ideas Your

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Political Pure Surrealism End Movement

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. Alejandro Jodorowsky

You Words Sometimes Nothing Heal Psychoanalysis Wants Realize Speaking

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Great Own Out TV Directors Feel Look Make Terrible Because Years Five Same Six Break Then Episodes Series

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.' Alejandro Jodorowsky

Good You Somebody Say Something Steals He Loves Then Yours

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

Old Mutant Miracle Like Read Learned Boy Years Four

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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