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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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
Actor
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Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
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Terrorists are not bad they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.
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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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When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
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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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For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
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You can't have a masterpiece without madness.
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The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
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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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