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 I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art. Alejandro Jodorowsky real book art Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it. Alejandro Jodorowsky real art moving My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference. Alejandro Jodorowsky differences wife years I don't live in France; I live in myself. Alejandro Jodorowsky france What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky stars artist simple I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs. Alejandro Jodorowsky psychedelic cinema drug The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint]. Alejandro Jodorowsky viewpoints people ideas My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute. Alejandro Jodorowsky minute meaning like clouds Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic. Alejandro Jodorowsky i-am morning beautiful life In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside. Alejandro Jodorowsky you speak truth together Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean. Alejandro Jodorowsky waves thought ocean two 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 old-age youth age work Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. Alejandro Jodorowsky society hate change age Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. Alejandro Jodorowsky paint work time art 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky new magic brain work To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers? Alejandro Jodorowsky weird real life hands I don't believe in failing. I have dignity. Alejandro Jodorowsky dignity failing believe The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. Alejandro Jodorowsky lot violent violence world I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun. Alejandro Jodorowsky eat movies like fun When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot. Alejandro Jodorowsky pictures every-day day tired
