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
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.
I am old, but I feel very beautiful.
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.