Author Profile
Alejandro Jodorowsky
1929 • Chilean • Director
60
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Showing 60 quotesWhen 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
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
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
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
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.— 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
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.— 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
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 am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.— Alejandro Jodorowsky