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
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
A true artist is always out of his time.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.
I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
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.