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
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
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.
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,
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.
I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.