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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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Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
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You can't have a masterpiece without madness.
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For art to be art it has to cure.
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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.
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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont 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 its from another century, its not for today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed.
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Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you're making money. You do the work because you love it.
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I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.
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Terrorists are not bad they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.
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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 shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet.
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My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
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I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.
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One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
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A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
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