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.

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

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!'

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

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.

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.

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

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

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

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

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

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