Alejandro Jodorowsky Zitate auf Englisch

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In order to be something, you must do something.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Books are finished.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am still radical!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The tarot is sacred.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

A true artist is always out of his time.

Alejandro Jodorowsky