Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Profession : Director

Birth : February 17, 1929

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

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

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.

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

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The tarot is sacred.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

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

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky