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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My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

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

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.

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

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.

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George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Author Bio

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