Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.”

“The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.”

“The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.”

“We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.”

“When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.”

“You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.”

“Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.”

“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.”

“I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.”

“I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.”