Alejandro Jodorowsky Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von 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.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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!'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky