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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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
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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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Santa Sangre is the picture I love the best, myself, because El Topo and The Holy Mountain I made with my head, and Santa Sangre I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.
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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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My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.
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People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
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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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I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.
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If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
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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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Most directors make films with their eyes I make films with my testicles.
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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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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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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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If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
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