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

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. Bu...

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

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I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do ...

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

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For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

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

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with ...

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The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. Wh...

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I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not com...

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If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also...

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Where the Bird Sings Best

During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within m...

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Where the Bird Sings Best

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little worl...

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

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and ...

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For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating.....

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I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young p...

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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is...

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

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You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends d...

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

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 di...

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Filmmaker

Born: 1929-02-17

Died: N/A

Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. Born in Chile, he became a Mexican citizen and was later naturalized as French.More