Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a French and Chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation"...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 February 1929
CityTocopilla, Chile
CountryChile
In order to be something, you must do something.
I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.
A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.
We only have problems we really want to have.
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
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.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.