Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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• 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…
• I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
• Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good…
• The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night…
• I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a…
• I was raping Frank Herbert but with love.
• Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
• Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
• My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
• I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
• My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
• Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
• People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
• 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 business,…
• The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics…
• I don't live in France; I live in myself.
• I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
• When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the…
• If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
• Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

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