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.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

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.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

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.

The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'

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