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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Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

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

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In order to be something, you must do something.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Author Bio

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