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
Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes about
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
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.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
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.
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.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.