Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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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

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When we didn't make the picture, Dan O'Bannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didn't get to do "Dune." And when he came out he wrote the script for "Alien." "Alien" was the reaction to not doing "Dune." Who would believe that? But it's true!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Born: February 17, 1929 (age 97)

Bio: Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comic book writer and spiritual guru.

Known for:

The Holy Mountain (1973)
El Topo (1970)
The Dance of Reality (2013)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Fando y Lis (1968)

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