Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

About Alejandro Jodorowsky:

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, musician, comic book writer and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation".
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Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

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

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

A true artist is always out of his time.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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 show...

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

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

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 believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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 ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

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

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In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Author Bio

  • NameAlejandro Jodorowsky
  • DescriptionFilmmaker and comics writer
  • BornFebruary 17, 1929
  • CountryChile
  • ProfessionWriter; Film Director; Actor; Playwright