Top 100 Jodorowsky Quotes
#1. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
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#4. The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
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#5. Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
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#6. 'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.
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#7. I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
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#9. I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!
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#12. 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.
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#13. My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
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#14. I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
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#16. My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
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#18. My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
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#19. I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
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#20. Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
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#21. I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
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#22. When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.
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#23. I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
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#24. Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
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#25. Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
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#26. I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
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#28. I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
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#31. Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
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#32. Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
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#33. Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
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#36. All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
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#37. Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
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#38. Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
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#39. 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!'
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#41. Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
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#42. Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
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#43. This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
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#44. Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.
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#45. When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.
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#47. I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.
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#50. All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
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#59. The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
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#61. 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].
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#62. For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
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#63. 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.
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#65. One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
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#66. My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.
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#67. I want to show the world that it is possible. It's possible to remember your self. To open your mind. To open your heart. To open your creativity. To live with less, but to live well.
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#68. You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
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#69. When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
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#70. 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.
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#72. I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.
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#81. I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.
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#84. I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
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#85. When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
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#86. Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
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#87. 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.
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#90. Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.
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#93. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#97. A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
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#98. French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee for a good part of his life, until the day he decided he was an artist. That day he left the bank and became a genius painter.
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#100. In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
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