Top 124 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

About Alejandro Jodorowsky

These are some quotes by Chilean author Alejandro Jodorowsky Director, who was born on February 17, 1929.

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We only have problems we really want to have.

We only have problems we really want to have.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

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?

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 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.

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

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!

For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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