I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
