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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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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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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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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.
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It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.
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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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I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed.
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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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Words don't heal. Art heals!
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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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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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People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
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For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
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In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.
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Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
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