It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am an honest artist.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am still radical!

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I'm a purist.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

We only have problems we really want to have.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky