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.
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
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.
I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.
A true artist is always out of his time.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.