Alejandro Jodorowsky

Director

Chile

1929 - Present

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Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.
Alejandro Jodorowsky