Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chilean novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
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 picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
The tarot is sacred.
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.
I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
In order to be something, you must do something.
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 brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
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 it. I intend to live 150 years.
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
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 come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
I don't live in France; I live in myself.
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
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 or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.
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 the pain of the world, all through my body.
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 from here that every awareness must begin.
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
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