My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer’s brain into what it is: a flying carpet. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don’t remember, is dreaming every night. – 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
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 person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making ‘El Topo,’ I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. – 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
I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it’s canceled, they can’t break out on their own. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think. – 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
If you are great, ‘El Topo’ is a great picture. If you are limited, ‘El Topo’ is limited. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. – 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
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider’s web. It shows that the truth sticks inside. – 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
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the ‘Pope of Surrealism.’ And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
