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
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
A true artist is always out of his time.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.