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
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.
Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.
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.
The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind.
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.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont 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; its from another century, its not for today.
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.