Alejandro Jodorowsky

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head,…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already.…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me.…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Words don't heal. Art heals!

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I'm a purist.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was raping Frank Herbert but with love.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky