Top 124 Quotes by 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.

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.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

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.

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

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

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.