A biography for Alejandro Jodorowskyhasn’t been written yet.
“Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.”
“I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!”
“I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'”
“When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.”
“I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.”
“My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.”
“I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.”
“You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.”
“Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.”
“I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.”
“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.”
“Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.”
“I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.”
“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.”
“The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.”
“I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.”
“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.”
“All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.”
“I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.”
“The tarot is sacred.”