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You can't have a masterpiece without madness.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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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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Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
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Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
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The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
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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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
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The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].
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Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
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One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
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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 am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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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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.
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The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.
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My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
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Most directors make films with their eyes I make films with my testicles.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
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Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
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