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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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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.
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Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
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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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You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
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Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
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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 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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Words don't heal. Art heals!
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