Quotes from Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

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.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

For art to be art it has to cure.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

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.

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

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

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.

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

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

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

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.