Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

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.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

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

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

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

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.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.