People Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

'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

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Words don't heal. Art heals!

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky