Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”
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“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
-- Alejandro JodorowskySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.”
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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 a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
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“Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines”
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“The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.”
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“What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.”
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“When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.”
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“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”
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“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.”
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“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
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“We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.”
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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.”
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“Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.”
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“And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.”
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“You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,”
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“I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,”
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“If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.”
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“I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.”
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“I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today.”
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“I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,”
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“The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.”
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“I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.”
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“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
-- Alejandro JodorowskySource : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.”
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“My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.”
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“I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.”
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“Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.”
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