Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, ‘Ah, I am alive still!’ All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don’t believe in making art to make money. – 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
Human society has dense borders – economic, religious and cultural – inculcated from an early age. We hate change. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is. – 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
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news. – 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
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
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
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It’s coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
It’s not the same thing to make a work – a film, a book, a play – about youth as it is to make one about old age. – 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
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
