Alejandro Jodorowsky

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again. ”

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

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.' ”

The tarot is sacred. ”

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. ”

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film. ”

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts. ”

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

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness. ”

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity. ”