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
I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
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 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.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany 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.
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,