Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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• I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
• Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
• Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really!…
• I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
• I am still radical!
• Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
• In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
• I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic…
• When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
• I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
• The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
• We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
• In order to be something, you must do something.
• We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
• For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
• The tarot is sacred.
• One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all…
• Death is an art, you know.
• My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I…
• When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

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