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. Alejandro Jodorowsky More Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky More Quotes From Alejandro Jodorowsky For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. Alejandro Jodorowsky artist opportunity inspirational I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life. Alejandro Jodorowsky imagination mind want 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky intellectual soul art 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky hallucinations drug people Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. Alejandro Jodorowsky giving reality art Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings. Alejandro Jodorowsky sublime perfection feelings Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you're making money. You do the work because you love it. Alejandro Jodorowsky making-money talent I shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet. Alejandro Jodorowsky I don't see myself as a movie maker only. 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. 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 Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator. Alejandro Jodorowsky different mind I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. Alejandro Jodorowsky style tragedy together I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, Alejandro Jodorowsky temples goal believe I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years. Alejandro Jodorowsky regret sorry past I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love. Alejandro Jodorowsky frank When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail." Alejandro Jodorowsky failing energy way For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird. Alejandro Jodorowsky tragedy mother son If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. Alejandro Jodorowsky ifs I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change. Alejandro Jodorowsky mind art thinking A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? Alejandro Jodorowsky cried cry men 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
