List of Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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].

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.

What Is An Artistic Picture? An Artistic Picture Is Very Simple. The Creator Is Not The Producer. The Creator Is Not The Star. The Creator Is The Director, The Person Who Realizes The Picture, Like A Poet, Like An Artist. The Creator Of The Picture Is Free To Do Whatever He Wants, How He Wants To Do It. That Is An Artistic Picture.

I Don't Think Of An Actor. I Think In The Character, And Then I Search For The Actor. Usually I'm Thinking Without Names, Because They Will Change My Idea. No Big Egos. If I Want Egos - Just Mine. That Is Enough.

It's Very Difficult To Live With Religious Ideas. I Can't Compare Religion To The Movies. I Can Fuse Them.

I Grew Up In The North Of Chile, And This Is Why There Are A Lot Of Religious Symbols In My Pictures, Because The Catholic Church In Latin America Is Very Strong. If I Was Born In Japan, I Would Speak About Buddhism, But I Was Born In South America.

In Chile They Have No Movies. They Have Awful Popular Movies. I Am Not A Latin American Creator.

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.

I Ask Of Cinema What Most North Americans Ask Of Psychedelic Drugs.

My Father Was A Monster. A Monster! I Cut With My Family When I Was 23 And I Never See Them Again.

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.

If The Picture Is Not An Artistic Picture, It's Show, Like Television. Television Series Are Very Funny, But It's A Collective Production. An Industrial Art. A Car Is Not Made By A Person, It's Made By A Group Of Creators, Only To Go To The Market To Buy Your Cigarettes. That Is A Car - They Are Not A Big Art, They Are A Little Art.