When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail." — 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
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
