Alejandro Jodorowsky Professions : Filmmaker Born : February 17, 1929 Browse All Authors Top 101 quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art. Alejandro Jodorowsky groups car art The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding. Alejandro Jodorowsky understanding today world I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky writing opportunity book The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news. Alejandro Jodorowsky negativity optimistic night I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money. Alejandro Jodorowsky making-money believe art Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition. Alejandro Jodorowsky ambition mind heart 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky moles animal looks I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed. Alejandro Jodorowsky needed rain My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50. Alejandro Jodorowsky consciousness limits Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life. Alejandro Jodorowsky five cat needs 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 writing book art My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again. Alejandro Jodorowsky cutting monsters father Words don't heal. Art heals! Alejandro Jodorowsky heal art Santa Sangre is the picture I love the best, myself, because El Topo and The Holy Mountain I made with my head, and Santa Sangre I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky emotional real heart 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. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America. Alejandro Jodorowsky strong religious latin 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 knows can-do order It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them. Alejandro Jodorowsky compare difficult religious I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me. Alejandro Jodorowsky scared realizing important In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator. Alejandro Jodorowsky latin-america latin Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests. Alejandro Jodorowsky very-sad terrible circumstances Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors
