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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.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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