Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

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

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

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

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.