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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo xoðoˈɾofski]; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French filmmaker. Active since 1948, in seventy years of his artistic career Jodorowsky has experienced it in almost all creative forms: writer (in his five facets: novelist, storyteller, poet, playwright and essayist), film director and producer, actor of cinema and theatre, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, comics writer, musician, soundtrack composer, philosopher, puppeteer, mime, psychologist and psychoanalyst, draughtsman, painter, eventually sculptor 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".

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

Mean, Path, Failure, Changing, Paths

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.

Change, Character, Enough, Names, Thinking, Usually

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

Cat, Cats, Five, Life, Needs

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.

Crisis, Differences, Humanity, Individuals, Solution, War

My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

Everyday, Insides, Paint, Red, Writing, Years

You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate yourself. Do it. Believe in yourself. Let a good seed be a good seed now, and then we'll have a good tree.

Believe, Fight, Fighting, Impossible, Seed, Tree

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Butterfly, Thinking, Wings, Disappearance, Metamorphosis, Thing

I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.

Bad, Good, Making, Realize, Realizing, Thinking

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

Ambition, Heart, Mind, Power

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Directors, Eye, Eyes, Inspirational, Make, Motivational

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Culture, Human, Humans, Perfect, Society

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

Ifs, Limited, Picture, Topo

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

Ask, Cinema, Drug, Drugs, North, Psychedelic

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Cried, Cry, Life, Man, Men

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Empty, Glass, Glasses, Inspirational, Philosophical, Showed

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

Art, Buy, Car, Groups, Series

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

Believe, Goal, Interior, Mysticism, Temples

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

Compare, Difficult, Fuse, Ideas, Religious

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Elephant, Elephants, Eye, Hit, Mind, Success

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Ask, Dream, Fight, Fighting, Possible, Trying

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