Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a French and Chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation"...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 February 1929
CityTocopilla, Chile
CountryChile
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
For art to be art it has to cure.
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
Words don't heal. Art heals!
I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
We only have problems we really want to have.
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
I am old, but I feel very beautiful.
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
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.
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.