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
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.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.
I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
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.
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.
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.