Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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• When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
• One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
• I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
• The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a…
• I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,
• I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because…
• I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the…
• Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
• I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but…
• You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,
• The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
• My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put…
• Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
• If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
• My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
• I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place.…
• I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that.…
• You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
• One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
• A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

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