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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I am an honest artist.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We only have problems we really want to have.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will nev...

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Te vas pero también aquí te quedas. Si las ramas crecen queriendo ocupar el cielo entero, las raíces nunca abandonan la tierra donde nacieron

Alejandro Jodorowsky

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Author Bio

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