Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Profession : Director

Birth : February 17, 1929

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

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

'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

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

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

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

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.

Alejandro Jodorowsky