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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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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I don't see myself as a movie maker only. 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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
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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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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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One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
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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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Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
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When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
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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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You can't have a masterpiece without madness.
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I don't live in France I live in myself.
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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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Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
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