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If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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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.
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Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
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I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
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When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
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Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
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Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
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I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
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I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
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What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.
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I don't live in France I live in myself.
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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.
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I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed.
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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: To fail is only to see the way to fail.
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Most directors make films with their eyes I make films with my testicles.
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You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
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