Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“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.”

“We only have problems we really want to have.”

“What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.”

“When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.”

“When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.”

“When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.”

“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 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.”

“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 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.”