Alejandro Jodorowsky

Director

Chile

1929 - Present

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Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
Alejandro Jodorowsky