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 Copy Share Image
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Age Copy Share Image
Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Animal Copy Share Image
I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Mother Copy Share Image
Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Action Copy Share Image
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Books Copy Share Image
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Photography Copy Share Image
Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Cinema Copy Share Image
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Day Copy Share Image
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Everyday Copy Share Image
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Art Copy Share Image
The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image