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
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
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.
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
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.
The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!