Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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• One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I…
• For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
• And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day…
• What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I…
• Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If…
• Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
• Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is…
• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
• The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes…
• I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money…
• I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.
• I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
• In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.
• I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.
• I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
• My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
• Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
• Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
• My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
• I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

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