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
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.
I am old, but I feel very beautiful.
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.
I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
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.
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.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.