Alejandro Jodorowski Quotes

When a child is born in a jail and during their life all they know is the jail they were born into, the idea of freedom becomes so terrifying that they ridicule the very thought of being free, as a clinical illness. It is nothing like the song that a caged bird sings. ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ~ Alejandro Amenabar

I absolutely love spending time with my family. ~ Kevin Alejandro

I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ~ David Alejandro Fearnhead

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up with golden tapestries, murderers turn good, and children who cry out of loneliness receive caring teachers who are really the children themselves moved back from adulthood to their early years. Yes, my daughter, the past is not fixed and unalterable. With faith and will we can change it, not erasing its darkness but adding lights to it to make it more and more beautiful, the way a diamond is cut. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake. ~ Alejandro Amenabar

It's not who, it's when ~ Alejandro Taubas

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything. ~ David Alejandro Fearnhead

I liked Lady Gaga's meat dress. It was funny. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle ... and without magnets glued to them."
"Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know. ~ Simone Elkeles

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Words don't heal. Art heals! ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ~ Alejandro Amenabar

I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.' ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. ~ Alejandro Amenabar

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but it was impossible, because the book was about parents who abandoned their children or children who abandoned their parents. Ultimately, that's what all books are about, she thought. ~ Alejandro Zambra

'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. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The body, whether it be human, mammal or insect, is nothing more than a machine designed as a vehicle intended to be used by the "soul." The brain, is perfected engineering inspired by divinity. Therefore, the world we see and touch is just an illusion because life and death are one in the same; essentially, we are heaven, eternal and ever lasting. ~ Alejandro C. Estrada

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

And in the Final Days, a War will erupt unlike any before. (Dated 8 August 2012) ~ Alejandro C. Estrada