Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.”

“When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.”

“I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.”

“I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.”

“If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.”

“The tarot is sacred.”

“A true artist is always out of his time.”

“I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.”

“I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.”

“I'm a purist.”