I don't see myself as a movie maker only. 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. 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 JodorowskyHave a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
Alejandro JodorowskyWhen I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
Alejandro JodorowskyIn Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.
Alejandro JodorowskyDon'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 JodorowskyEvery one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
Alejandro JodorowskyI believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today.
Alejandro Jodorowsky